A 25-year-old New Mexico woman whose body was found in near-shore waters fronting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Oct. 2, died to “asphyxiation due to salt water drowning,” the city Department of the Medical Examiner said today.
Aaron Susa, a 31-year-old homeless man who was released from jail the day before Bryanna Antone’s body was found, was indicted by an O’ahu grand jury this morning on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with her death.
City Deputy Prosecutor Vickie Kapp told Circuit Judge Richard Perkins this morning while presenting the grand jury returns that the cause of death in the Antone case was drowning.
Perkins approved a request by Kapp to continue Susa’s bail at $500,000 and to issue a bench warrant, initiating the case against him in Circuit Court.
Susa is being held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.