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A 36-year-old man is scheduled to appear in court today to answer to an attempted-murder charge after police said he stabbed another man in the back in Makiki.
Ak Yos was indicted last week on a charge of second- degree attempted murder and was being held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Police arrested Yos at about 1 a.m. May 4 after officers responded to a report of a fight on Kinau Street, and people pointed out Yos as someone who just stabbed another person, a police affidavit said.
The victim’s uncle said he saw Yos grab a 6-inch kitchen knife and stab his nephew in the back, the affidavit said.
The victim went to The Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition with a punctured lung, police said.
Chimpanzee makes a break for it at zoo
A chimpanzee scaled a wall and escaped from its exhibit Sunday at the Honolulu Zoo.
At about noon the chimpanzee, one of eight in the exhibit, was able to get a finger hold and climb to the top of the wall separating the chimpanzee and aviary exhibits, said city spokesman Andrew Pereira.
The chimp could have gone into the walk-through aviary, where it would have come into contact with zoo visitors, but instead jumped off the wall into the chimp holding area, adjacent to the chimpanzee exhibit, Pereira said. The chimp did not go into a public space, he said.
The chimp was contained in the holding area and placed back in its pen within 10 minutes of leaving the exhibit. Animal keepers ushered the public away from the surrounding area until the chimpanzee was put into its pen.
Hawaii island
Crash kills 1, injures another
One man was killed and another injured Sunday when a lowboy tractor-trailer connected to the military crashed in North Kona on Hawaii island.
The single-vehicle crash closed the intersection of Route 190 and Daniel K. Inouye Highway at about 8:30 a.m.
Police said the intersection would be closed for hours and directed drivers to alternate routes.
The tractor-trailer crossed Highway 190 after failing to stop at the three-way intersection, went through a guardrail and traveled about 15 feet down an embankment, said Hawaii Fire Battalion Chief Darwin Okinaka.
One man died at the scene, and firefighters took the second man in stable condition to a hospital, Okinaka said. West Hawaii Today identified them as Schofield Barracks soldiers.
Firefighters turned the scene over to Army officials from Pohakuloa Training Area and police.
MAUI
Man dies after power-line jolt
A 55-year-old man died Saturday after he fell while picking breadfruit in Wailuku, police said.
Police identified the man Sunday as Joseph Riveira of Wailuku. His exact cause of death was under investigation.
Riveira was using an aluminum pole to pick breadfruit from a tree at a Waiale Road residence when the pole touched an overhead high-voltage line at about 11:20 a.m., police said.
Riveira apparently was shocked and fell from the tree onto the ground, police said. Emergency responders found him lifeless and pronounced him dead at the scene.
KAUAI
Hanakapiai Trail sees fatality
A visitor from India died Friday after collapsing while hiking the Hanakapiai Trail on Kauai. Police identified the man as Chandra Vemuri, 71.
Vemuri collapsed at about 7 p.m. Friday while about 1.5 miles into the trail from the Kee Beach trailhead, police said.
Good Samaritans were performing CPR when firefighters arrived, but Vemuri could not be resuscitated.
Firefighters carried him back to the trailhead, and paramedics took him to Wilcox Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy is pending.
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