A Kalihi man charged with stabbing a man during a fight Sunday in the Keeaumoku Street area tried to flee in the bed of a pickup truck and was found with blood on his left hand, a police affidavit said.
Richard A. Lam, 21, of a Linapuni Street address, pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault and a drug charge at his Honolulu District Court arraignment Tuesday. His preliminary hearing is Thursday afternoon.
Lam is accused of stabbing a 22-year-old man numerous times just after 7 a.m. with a 3-inch pocketknife during a fight Sunday morning on Sheridan Street near the McDonald’s restaurant, the affidavit said.
Police said Lam tried to flee in a white truck with two other people heading west on Elm Street and was stopped by police at a Chevron gas station on King Street a few blocks away. He was found hiding in the bed of the pickup truck with blood on his left hand, police said in an affidavit filed in court Tuesday.
Witnesses identified Lam in a field lineup at the gas station.
The victim was stabbed four times —two wounds to the right chest and two to the stomach — and treated at the Queen’s Medical Center emergency room, the document said.
Officials did not state a possible motive for Sunday’s fight, which police said involved about 20 people.
At the police station, Lam was searched and was found carrying a small bag containing a white powdery substance resembling cocaine, and carrying two blue pills.
Prosecutors on Monday charged Lam with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug. His bail was set at $100,000.
Sunday’s incident was the third stabbing in the Keeaumoku area during the past month.
No arrests were made in a March 15 fight in which two men were stabbed in front of the Keeaumoku McDonald’s.
A group of five young men and women got into a fight with another group just after 4 a.m. on the Sheridan Street side of the McDonald’s parking lot. The fight spilled over to the sidewalk on the Ewa side of Keeaumoku Street, where two men were stabbed by the suspect, police said.
Paramedics took a 26-year-old man to the hospital in critical condition. A 22-year-old man was treated and released from the hospital.
On March 3 police arrested a 20-year-old Ewa Beach man but released him after the victims declined to press charges following a fight on Makaloa Street near the Walgreens on Keeaumoku Street at about 5:30 p.m.
Paramedics took a 21-year-old man to the hospital with stab wounds, and police said a 20-year-old man was hit with a baseball bat.
