The 65-year-old Aliamanu man accused of killing his wife and stabbing his sister-in-law was released from the Queen’s Medical Center on Monday.

Isagani Fajotina was immediately booked on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal Jan. 18 stabbing of his wife, Melita Fajotina, as she slept in the couple’s bedroom. An Oahu grand jury Jan. 26 also returned an indictment against him for second-degree attempted murder of his 52-year-old sister-in-law.

After he was discharged from the hospital, he was taken to the cellblock at the Honolulu police station, where he remained in custody Tuesday, unable to post bail of $1 million while awaiting arraignment.

Isagani Fajotina was hospitalized at Queen’s with self-inflicted injuries to his midsection.

The Honolulu medical examiner said Melita Fajotina, 65, died from stab and cut wounds to her neck.

Fajotina told police he cannot control himself when he gets angry and that he had abused his wife fairly often.

During the grand jury proceeding, a city prosecutor said Fajotina and his wife were in a bedroom in their Wanaka Street home when their two grandchildren, who were sleeping with them, ran into the sister-in-law’s bedroom and said Fajotina had struck his wife.

Fajotina then allegedly attacked his sister-in-law, who had cuts to her neck, hand and arm.

In 1987 Fajotina was arrested and charged with misdemeanor spouse abuse. He was granted a deferral and the charge was later dismissed.