Updated at 9:47 p.m., Sunday, October 28, 2007
Kalihi stabbing leaves 1 dead, 1 critical
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
The woman, 44, was found in the bedroom of her first-floor apartment unit at 2110 Kahaha St. on the mauka side of Gulick Avenue by a police officer responding to a 911 call of a domestic argument at about 2:30 p.m., said Lt. Bill Kato, supervisor of homicide investigations.
Paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene at 3:23 p.m., according to City Emergency Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic.
A man, 50, believed to be the woman's husband, was at The Queen's Medical Center tonight in critical but stable condition with an apparent stab wound to the upper torso area, said Kato.
Two kitchen knives were found at the scene, added Kato.
According to booking information at the main police station, Melchor B. Adviento, 50, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder at 2:40 p.m. before being talken to the hospital.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office last night declined to release the name of the victim.
Kato said the patrol officer who investigated the 911 call arrived at the apartment and found the door locked. A man bleeding from the chest area answered the officer's knock and the officer entered and found the woman's body.
