The 26-year-old suspect arrested after allegedly threatening a man with a gun at a suspected game room in Kalihi on Monday is scheduled to be retried for murder in the 2010 beating death of a taxicab driver in Waipahu, according to court records.

Police said Kilani Derego threatened a man in the game room at Ohana Grocery, 1104 Palama St., around 3:25 a.m. A struggle ensued between the two and the firearm discharged twice.

Police said there were no gunshot injuries, but a bouncer fought with Derego, who sustained multiple head and face injuries in the altercation. It is unclear whether the bouncer was the man Derego initially threatened.

Emergency Medical Services personnel treated Derego and took him to a hospital in serious condition.

Officers recovered the pistol at the scene and arrested Derego on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, first-degree reckless endangering and three counts of firearm-related offenses.

Police said he was still hospitalized at The Queen’s Medical Center as of Tuesday morning.

In 2012, Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario sentenced Derego to life in prison with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder in the beating death of taxicab driver Charlys Ty Tang. The conviction was overturned in 2015 and Derego is scheduled to be retried in the case.

Derego, who was 17 when the cab driver was beaten to death on May 1, 2010, and Michael Robles, 18 at the time, got into Tang’s cab in Waikiki. An argument occurred between Tang and Derego at the Waipahu Times Super Market parking lot. Robles testified in his own trial that Derego initiated the beating and inflicted severe injuries on Tang. Robles is serving a 20-year prison term at Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona for a manslaughter conviction in connection with Tang’s death.

Tang was taken in critical condition to The Queen’s Medical Center, where he died later that day. It was his 41st birthday.

Three years after Del Rosario sentenced Derego to life in prison for the deadly beating, the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned the murder conviction, ruling in 2015 that the judge should not have allowed the state to present Robles’ police statements as evidence.

When Robles took the witness stand at Derego’s trial, he recanted his earlier confessions to police as well as his testimony in his own trial. Derego and Robles grew up together in Hilo and lived together at the Hale Kipa therapeutic group home in Manoa for at-risk youth.

Del Rosario allowed the prosecutor to present Robles’ police statements to jurors after Robles refused to answer questions. The appellate court said his refusal to answer questions denied Derego his right to cross-examine his accuser in the police statements.

The appeals court sent the case back to Circuit Court for retrial. According to court records, Derego’s retrial is tentatively set for January.

The Honolulu prosecutor’s office Tuesday declined to comment on Derego’s case.

Derego had been released from prison in July on a $150,000 bond from Aloha Bail Bonds pending the retrial, despite repeated opposition by the state on bail reduction and supervised release.

He was previously released in September 2017 on a $150,000 bond from Da Kine Bail Bonds but returned to prison five months later after he flagged down a police officer in Waikiki and told him he “wanted to go back to jail,” according to court records. Derego also admitted that he cut off the ankle monitor owned by the bail bondsman.