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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, September 11, 2008

MAKIKI
Teen indicted in freeway shooting of another teen

Joshua Gonda, 19, of Makiki, was indicted by an O'ahu grand jury yesterday on multiple felony charges related to a July freeway shooting that paralyzed another teenager.

Gonda is being held on $500,000 bail on one count of attempted murder in the first degree, two counts of attempted murder in the second degree and three counts of firearms-related offenses.

Prosecutors said Gonda was in a group that saw the victim, Roger Curioso, and another man in a car at the Costco Honolulu parking lot and "recognized them from an earlier incident."

Gonda and others in his group then went looking for Curioso's car and, after locating it in Kalihi, followed it onto the Moanalua Freeway, according to the prosecutor's office.

Gonda, a passenger in one car, allegedly opened fire with a handgun on the vehicle in which Curioso was a passenger, striking the 16-year-old victim, who is now paralyzed from the chest down.

According to police reports, the shooting was gang-related.