HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Man fatally shot at apartments
Advertiser Staff
A 47-year-old man was fatally shot and another man injured last night following a confrontation at a Waipahu apartment building, police said.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. at 94-111 Pupu'ole Place, police Detective Gary Lahens said.
The victim, who lived in the building, was seen arguing with a woman in the parking lot last night, Lahens said. He went upstairs to his third-floor apartment, came back down and got into an argument with a group of four men who were drinking in the parking lot.
The victim took out a revolver and fired three or four shots at the men, who scattered, Lahens said. One of the men was grazed by a bullet; he was later treated at the scene.
The victim was found lying in the parking lot, shot once. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Lahens said. The gun was recovered with the victim. Police were investigating how he was shot.
HAWAI'I KAI
ARMED MAN ROBS 'LOST' STAR, WIFE
Josh Holloway, a star of ABC's Emmy Award-winning TV series "Lost," and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their Hawai'i Kai home early yesterday morning, KHON-TV reported.
The robber rousted the couple from bed, took cash and credit cards and drove off in Holloway's Mercedes-Benz, which was found abandoned a short time later, the station said.
There was no indication that the robber recognized the 36-year-old actor, who plays hunky con man Sawyer on the castaway drama filmed on O'ahu, KHON said.
The man, who was armed with a handgun, was described as 5 feet 8 with a slim build. He wore a black or gray baseball cap and black or gray shirt.
Police did not release any information on the robbery.
CLUBS ORGANIZE BENEFIT WALK
The Interact Club of Kaiser High School, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Hawai'i Kai, will hold a fundraising walk to raise money for AIDS/HIV-affected people in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, from 9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 22 at the school's athletic field.
For more information about Rotary, call 395-7505 or fax 396-4492.
WAIMALU
DEAD PEDESTRIAN IS IDENTIFIED
The city Department of the Medical Examiner yesterday identified Melvin Ulep of Pearl City as the pedestrian who was fatally injured Tuesday when he was hit by a car while trying to cross Kamehameha Highway near Neal Blaisdell Park.
Ulep, 31, was in a marked crosswalk and was walking makai near Kaluamoi Place, police said.
A Honolulu-bound 1995 black Buick Riviera driven by a 23-year-old man hit Ulep shortly before 3:30 p.m. Police said he was taken in critical condition to The Queen's Medical Center, where he died.
MAUI
MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN KIHEI COLLISION
KIHEI — A 35-year-old motorcyclist died Tuesday after colliding with a van on South Kihei Road.
Maui police said Jeffrey Lauritzen of Kihei was headed north on a 1991 Suzuki motorcycle just before 4 p.m. when he hit a 2002 Ford van that was turning from the oncoming lane onto Uilani Street. Lauritzen was pronounced dead at 7:20 p.m. at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Police said he was not wearing a helmet.
The 47-year-old Kihei man who was driving the van was not injured.
KAILUA
PROFESSOR TO LEAD TOUR OF MARSH
Floyd McCoy, geology professor at Windward Community College, will conduct a tour of Kawai Nui Marsh and the Kailua Ahupua'a from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 22.
McCoy will explain how the Ko'olau eruptive center was formed two million years ago and how the catastrophic collapse of the windward side of the shield volcano occurred among other fact concerning the geology makeup of the marsh and Kailua.
The tour, which is limited to 35 people, is co-sponsored by 'Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi, the Kawai Nui Heritage Foundation and Ameron Hawai'i. A $5 donation will be accepted. Call Chuck Burrows at 595-3922 or e-mail him at chuckb@hawaii .rr.com.
PLANT SALE SET FOR OCT. 22
The Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle will host a Giant Plant Sale from 8 to 11 a.m. Oct. 22 at Kailua Elementary School, 315 Ku'ulei Road, to benefit horticulture classes at the Women's Community Correctional Center.
The inmates grew the plants as part of their horticulture classes, which are sponsored by the Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle with the help of community foundations, businesses and individuals. On sale will be palms, crotons, pikake, ginger, gardenia, green rose, dwarf mondo grass and more.
HONOLULU
FREE SYMPOSIUM BEGINS TODAY
A symposium titled Indigenous Traditional and Customary Rights in Modern Legal Systems, sponsored by the William S. Richardson School of Law's Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law and the 'Ahahui o Hawai'i, takes place today through Saturday.
An opening reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today will feature Chief Judge Joe Williams of the Maori Land Court and chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal as the keynote speaker.
Among the speakers tomorrow and Saturday will be former Hawai'i Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Klein; Heather Kendall-Miller, an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund; and Vicky Holt-Takamine, kumu hula of Pua Ali'i 'Ilima.
STATE
CAMPANIANO TO HEAD FOUNDATION
Robin Campaniano has been elected president of the Public Schools of Hawai'i Foundation, which he helped to establish in 1986.
Campaniano, a Roosevelt High School graduate and president/CEO of AIG Hawaii Insurance Co., will serve a two-year term. He succeeds bank executive Ron Migita as president of the foundation, which raises money for the state Department of Education.
Other officers elected to serve with Campaniano are Keith Nagata of First Hawaiian Bank, Mike Cusato Jr. of The Honolulu Advertiser, Gary Caulfield of First Hawaiian Bank, Mark Uranaka of DataHouse Inc. and Russell Okata of the Hawaii Government Employees Association.
