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A 17-year-old boy, charged as a juvenile in connection with last October’s fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Kaneohe-based Marine in Waikiki, could be tried as an adult.
A Family Court judge Tuesday waived the court’s jurisdiction over the teen.
Police arrested the teen Tuesday at noon on suspicion of second-degree murder. He was taken into police custody, but the teen has not yet been charged as an adult.
The victim, Sgt. William Brown, 23, and his friends were confronted at about 1 a.m. Oct. 21 by a group of people.
A verbal exchange between the two groups occurred and escalated, police said. Brown was stabbed multiple times at the corner of Royal Hawaiian and Kalakaua avenues.
He was taken to the hospital where he later died of a stab wound to the chest.
Police arrested three people for the Oct. 21, 2017, murder — a 21-year-old man and two teens, a girl, 14, and a boy, 16.
The suspect, then 16, had been charged as a juvenile, police said.
Man charged in shooting at adult business
Prosecutors charged a 35-year-old man Tuesday afternoon with second-degree attempted murder and firearms charges in the shooting of a 28-year-old man on Sunday.
Police said the suspect got into an argument with the victim and shot him at about 10:40 p.m. at an adult entertainment business on Kalani Street.
The younger man was taken in critical condition to a hospital, where he remains hospitalized.
Prescott Kesi turned himself in at the Pearl City police station later that night. Police arrested Kesi at 1:33 a.m. Monday on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder. He was also arrested on five criminal contempt warrants.
Man seriously injured after Kalihi stabbing
A 25-year-old man was taken to a trauma hospital after he sustained a stab wound near Kingsgate Plaza in Kalihi Monday.
Emergency Medical Services said the victim was stabbed in the upper body shortly before 9:15 p.m. near 555 N. King St. Paramedics treated and transported him to a hospital in serious condition.
No arrests have been made at this time.
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