Fatal hit-and-run incident brings grand jury indictment

An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday against the alleged driver in a September hit-and-run accident that killed a 58-year-old man in Waianae.

The indictment charges Francine Marshall-Wun, 47, with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and operating a vehicle without a valid driver’s license.

Honolulu police said Robert Kapololu Jr. was found lying near the Taco Bell Restaurant on Farrington Highway on Sept. 16 just after midnight.

A city ambulance crew took Kapololu in extremely critical condition to Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, where he later died. The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office said Kapololu died of multiple blunt force injuries.

Police say Marshall-Wun was driving the pickup truck that struck Kapololu and then left the scene. They located and arrested her at Waianae Boat Harbor nearby.

Just two months before the fatal collision, Marshall-Wun pleaded no contest to driving without a license, for which she spent two days in jail.