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Woman run over in parking lot is ID’d

The city Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the 88-year-old woman who died Monday after she fell in a Pearl City parking lot and was run over by a truck.

Police said Edith Yoshida of Pearl City was pushing a shopping cart from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to Foodland at 9:04 a.m. at the Pearl City Shopping Center when she fell.

A 37-year-old man driving a 2014 Nissan truck did not see Yoshida fall and ran her over, police said.

Yoshida was taken in critical condition to Pali Momi Medical Center, where she later died.

Honolulu police officer charged with DUI

A 26-year-old Honolulu Police Department officer was charged with drunken driving last week.

Officer Danny Balico, who is in training, was arrested at 5 a.m. July 19 on Kapiolani Boulevard near the Hawai‘i Convention Center. He was released the same morning after posting $500 bail.

Balico has been on the force for about a year.

The department has initiated a criminal and administration investigation, police said.

Woman’s cause of death still undetermined

The cause of death for a 25-year-old homeless woman whose decomposing body was retrieved from Lake Wilson last week is pending the outcome of several tests, the city Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday.

The Medical Examiner’s Office identified her as Darya White.

Firefighters were called to Wahiawa Freshwater State Park on July 17 after a body was seen floating in the water.

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