Updated at 10:08 p.m., Thursday, October 25, 2007
Assault charge pending in Makiki stabbing
Advertiser Staff
A 25-year-old Makiki man was arrested early today on suspicion of stabbing another man who twice challenged him to fight, police said.The 21-year-old male victim was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with critical injuries. The stabbing was reported at 1:45 a.m.
According to police, the arrested man was at a Waikiki nightclub with his girlfriend, who is the ex-girlfriend of the victim.
During a fight outside the nightclub, the older man picked up a knife dropped by the younger man during the altercation and took it home.
The younger man later threatened his former girlfriend on phone and allegedly went to a Marques Street address to confront the woman's boyfriend again.
The suspect brought out the knife he had picked up in the earlier fight and allegedly stabbed the victim during the second confrontation.
The suspect arrested at 4:05 a.m. was still in custody at the main police station cellblock pending first-degree assault charges at 10 p.m.
