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Updated at 8:19 a.m., Monday, November 17, 2008

Kaimuki resident killed in car wreck on Mainland

Advertiser Staff

A 22-year-old Kaimuki resident was one of four Pacific Union College students killed in a motor vehicle accident Saturday night in Napa Valley, Calif., the school's Web site reports.

According to the PUC Web site, Hawaiian Mission Academy graduate Luke Kotaro Nishikawa of Kaimuki was killed at about 11:45 p.m. Saturday night when the Honda Civic he was in was hit head-on by an oncoming car.

All four victims were pronounced dead at the scene, the report said. The accident occurred on Deer Park Road.

The PUC Web site stated that friends of the Nishikawa and the other three victims said they had just finished playing basketball at the college gym and were on their way to Safeway in St. Helena to grab something to eat when the accident occurred.

Also killed in the accident were Joshoa Pak Boaz, 20, of Hidden Valley, Calif., Chong Whon Shin, 20, of Aloha, Ore., and Simon Chulmin Son, 19, Hidden Valley, Calif.

Nishikawa was an American History major. The PUC report said Nishikawa was the leader of a campus outreach program called Homeless Ministries and that on Saturday morning, Nishikawa had gone to the bay area with a group of students to feed the homeless.

Nishikawa's father is the pastor of Manoa Japanese Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Honolulu.

Shin was involved in youth ministry at the Rohnert Park Korean Seventh-day Adventist Church, the report said.