A man wanted for allegedly causing a fatal five-car crash in Kunia last year while driving drunk and speeding was charged Monday after he allegedly shattered the glass window of a Kahala business.
Police said Pulu Sese, 22, was arguing with his girlfriend when he punched the glass, causing it to shatter at about 8 p.m. Saturday. A witness notified store employees, who called police.
Officers arrested Sese at Kahala Mall.
An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment July 19 charging Sese with two counts of negligent homicide regarding last year’s crash, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Police said Sese caused the Jan. 1, 2011, crash that killed Jennifer Parsons, 42, of Waianae and Samson Kautai, 12, of Kaneohe.
He was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree negligent homicide and one count of second-degree criminal property damage.
He remained in the police cellblock in lieu of $50,000 bail.
A deputy prosecutor told a court judge that Sese was speeding on Kunia Road and passing other vehicles when his car crashed into Parsons’ oncoming vehicle. Sese’s car overturned, ejecting him and Kautai, who was a rear-seat passenger in his car.
Kautai and Parsons died at the scene.
Police said the car Sese was trying to pass veered to the right, spun into the opposite lane of traffic and was broadsided by a pickup. The car behind Parsons was hit by debris, veered to the right and struck a dirt embankment.
Sese went to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition. His other passengers — males ages 19, 17 and 14 — and the drivers of the pickup and the car Sese was trying to pass went to Queen’s in serious condition.
The deputy prosecutor said Sese’s blood-alcohol content was 0.08, the legal threshold for drunken driving. Police calculated his car was traveling 78 mph in a 35 mph zone.
According to state court records, police stopped Sese on March 22 this year and cited him for speeding and driving without his driver’s license or insurance card. That case is pending.
