A 35-year-old convicted felon is scheduled to appear in Circuit Court today after he was accused of killing a 37-year-old woman in a 2018 deadly hit-and-run crash in Wahiawa.
Prosecutors charged Gary Dean McCormick-Fesagaiga, also known as Gary Demar McCormic Fesagiga, on Feb. 11 with second-degree negligent homicide in the death of Candice Gilfillan.
He also was charged with one count of accidents involving death or seriously bodily injury and one count of accidents involving bodily injury of a 29-year-old woman who Hawaii News Now reported was in a third vehicle. She sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the crash.
McCormick-Fesagaiga remains in custody at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Police arrested him Wednesday at or near
2230 California Ave. in Wahiawa on a $500,000 bench warrant in connection with the Nov. 21 crash.
Police said a car intentionally rammed into the back of a vehicle, described by Hawaii News Now as a black Toyota Tacoma truck, on Whitmore Avenue near the Uakanikoo Street intersection at about 1 p.m. The driver then fled.
A woman in the black
Toyota Tacoma later identified as Gilfillan was taken in critical condition to a hospital with head and back injuries and died Dec. 31.
A 29-year-old woman in a separate vehicle sustained minor injuries. Hawaii News Now said her vehicle was inadvertently struck by the black truck after the first car hit the truck from behind.
McCormick-Fesagaiga is set to appear in court for his trial in April for a separate case involving a 2017 shooting in Waipio.
He was charged with attempted murder in the shooting, which occurred on Dec. 11, 2017.
A 29-year-old man told police two suspects later identified as McCormick- Fesagaiga and Ashley Chun drove up to him while he was seated in his SUV on Neal Avenue.
McCormick-Fesagaiga stepped out of the sedan from the passenger side door and allegedly fired four to five shots at him.
Police said they are known to one another.
Police said the victim fled in his SUV and did not sustain any injuries.
Chun, described as McCormick-Fesagaiga’s accomplice, was also charged with attempted murder and is due to appear at her trial in April.
McCormick-Fesagaiga has a criminal record of felony assault and felony theft involving the 2002 beating death of a 43-year-old man in Wahiawa.
When McCormick-Fesagaiga was 18, he was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree theft in the death of Mark Mehr.
Mehr died at Queen’s Medical Center on Feb. 21, 2002, after he was found unconscious on a sidewalk fronting an apartment building at
329 California Ave. on Feb. 11.
Police said three male suspects confronted Mehr and assaulted him outside of the building. His money and jewelry were taken after the attack.
McCormick-Fesagaiga pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and second-degree theft under a plea agreement. Circuit Judge Victoria Marks sentenced him to
10 years for the assault charge and five years for the theft charge. The terms ran concurrently.
His accomplice, Joseph Marshall, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and second- degree theft under a plea deal. He was sentenced to
20 years in prison.
Police arrested a third suspect, a 19-year-old man, and released him.