POLICE BEAT
Schofield soldiers injured in hit-run
Advertiser Staff
Two Schofield Barracks soldiers were seriously hurt when they were struck by a hit-and-run vehicle on the H-1 Freeway, police said yesterday.
The two men were fixing a flat tire on their car on the freeway late Friday night when another car hit both of them in the far right lane and then fled. The men, 18 and 20 years old, were taken to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition, police said.
MAN RUN OVER BY CAR AFTER FIGHT
A 20-year-old man was in serious condition yesterday after being intentionally run over by a car, whose driver fled the scene.
Police say the victim and the suspect were first involved in a fight outside a Halawa liquor store about 1:30 a.m. yesterday.
After a bystander broke up the fight, the suspect got into a car and ran the victim over. The 20-year-old man was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle.
ATTACKERS SOUGHT IN BAT BEATING
Police were looking last night for four men who attacked a 19-year-old Honolulu man with a baseball bat. The victim was in guarded condition at a hospital last night.
Police said the attack occurred about 4:30 a.m. yesterday when the men approached the victim outside a Honolulu-area apartment building and exchanged words. The victim tried to run to his apartment but was struck from behind with a baseball bat several times.
Police said all of the men involved in the attack were about 6 feet tall and weighed between 250 and 300 pounds. The man armed with the bat was described as in his 20s, wearing a red T-shirt and shorts.
