Posted at 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Man indicted in beating death
Advertiser Staff
A grand jury today indicted Alapeti Siuanu Tunoa Jr. on second-degree murder charges and five other counts in the shotgun beating death of his estranged girlfriend.Tunoa earlier appeared in District Court and state public defender Alen Kaneshiro entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
The grand jury today indicted Tunoa on murder in the second degree, criminal property damage in the first degree, terroristic threatening in the first degree, assault in the first degree and two firearms charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Tunoa, 30, of Salt Lake, was on parole for first degree robbery Wednesday night when he allegedly beat 29-year-old Janel Tupuola to death with the butt of a shotgun on Maluniu Avenue in Kailua.
The terroristic threatening and assault charges involve threats and an attack Tunoa allegedly made against a 60-year-old witness to the beating, who was taken to Castle Medical Center in critical condition.
