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Medical examiner to conduct autopsy on 3-year-old girl
Honolulu police Tuesday night were investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl in Waianae.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office was planning to conduct an autopsy.
As of 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, the girl’s body was en route from a hospital to the Medical Examiner’s Office. Details of the case were not immediately available.
ATV accident victim on the Big Island was Kamuela man
The victim of an all-terrain vehicle accident on Hawaii island Sunday has been identified as a Kamuela man.
Willard Rapoza Jr., 48, died after crashing on his ATV sometime between 10 a.m. and noon Sunday. Rapoza left Waimea on an ATV, and at 1:25 p.m. Monday relatives found him unresponsive and trapped beneath the ATV on a trail on private property off Fire Road 15 in Waimea.
He was pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital at 7:30 p.m. Monday. An autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death.
Because the crash involved an ATV on private property, it is not counted as a traffic fatality for official statistical purposes, Hawaii County police said.
Pedestrian killed in Ewa Beach crash has been identified
The city Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the 95-year-old Ewa Beach man who died Saturday after he was hit by a car earlier in the week as Ali Sabbaghi.
Police said the victim was not in a marked crosswalk on Fort Weaver Road when he was hit by a car traveling south near Laulaunui Street at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday.
He was taken in good condition to the hospital, but his condition worsened and he died Saturday, police said.
This was Oahu’s 51st traffic fatality this year compared with 46 at the same time in 2013.
