Three of the six people who were charged on Monday with attempted second-degree murder in connection with the Friday night beating of a Waipahu man were indicted by an O'ahu grand jury yesterday on lesser charges.

Jeremiah Leota, 26, and Jimmy Robinson, 19, who allegedly beat the victim with a baseball bat, were each indicted on a charge of first-degree assault.

Leota is also accused of deliberately running into the victim three times with a white Jeep.

Ana Lealiiee, 45, was indicted on a charge of second-degree assault for allegedly striking the 25-year-old victim with a beer bottle as he lay on Pupuole Street.

Meanwhile, charges were dropped against three others who were also charged Monday with attempted second-degree murder in the case — Paulo Ioane, 20; Eliza Lealiiee, 19; and Jamel Leota, 25. Prosecutors yesterday declined to comment on the decision to drop charges against the three.

The victim told police the beating occurred after he approached a group of people and asked for a cigarette.

An affidavit filed by police in District Court says the victim's wife dropped him off Friday night on Pupuole Street before he crossed the street to ask for a cigarette. The affidavit says a man then punched the victim in the face and the remainder of the group — seven or eight women — began to punch and kick him and hit him with beer bottles.

The affidavit says the victim managed to break free from the group and was walking away when he was struck by a white Jeep Cherokee and then pummeled with a baseball bat by the Jeep's driver and a passenger as he lay on the ground.

He was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in critical condition.

A relative of the suspects said on Sunday that the victim was intoxicated, asked for the cigarette in a rude manner and started the fight when he hit one of the younger women in the face.

City Deputy Prosecutor Vickie Kapp told Circuit Judge Perkins yesterday that the victim suffered multiple facial fractures and a fractured skull during the incident.

Perkins granted a request from Kapp to set bail at $30,000 for each of the three defendants. Kapp told Perkins that Ana Lealiiee had already posted $30,000 bail in the case, courtesy of Da Kine Bail Bonds.