POLICE BEAT
Army sergeant, 22, ID'd as crash victim
Advertiser Staff
Maui police have identified a motorcyclist killed Saturday morning in Ma'alaea as Army Sgt. Eric Rynearson, 22.
Rynearson was thrown from his 2007 Suzuki GSXR on Ma'alaea Road, two-tenths of a mile north of Kapoli Street, after losing control of the motorcycle, which went off the roadway and crashed into a guardrail.
Police were called at 12:30 a.m. Rynearson was dead at the scene.
Police said Rynearson was assigned to a recruiting office in Wailuku. His family lives in Oregon.
The traffic fatality is Maui's first in 2008.
