Newswatch


By Star-Bulletin Staff

Thursday, July 11, 1996



Mayor will meet with
gang members

Mayor Jeremy Harris was to meet today with members of an Oahu youth gang who have threatened retaliation against police for killing one of their members during a stolen car chase.

About a dozen members of the Little Pinoy Bad Boys Ilocano gang, one of the largest in the state, will meet with Harris in his office.

The meet was set up by the Adult Friends for Youth, which has been counseling the gang's members since Jared Fe Benito died June 8.

Fe Benito, 16, was shot and killed by police after they say he tried to ram into them with a stolen car when they surrounded the vehicle outside Pearlridge Center. A second boy in the car was shot three times but lived, and a third escaped unharmed.



Morgado files suit over city campaign law

Mayoral candidate Arnold Morgado today filed a lawsuit challenging the city's controversial campaign ethics law.

The law, enacted last year, bars anyone who has received a nonbid contract or land-use approval from the city in the past two years from participating in this fall's city elections.

Morgado is enlisting the help of civil rights attorney Daniel Foley in his attempt to overturn the law in state Circuit Court. The three main objections:



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Police/Fire


By Star-Bulletin staff



Hilo wreck kills boy, 9,
injures mother

HILO - A 9-year-old boy was killed and his mother seriously injured when their car overturned on Saddle Road about 6 p.m. yesterday, police said.

Karen Jordal, 32, of Hilo was heading toward Hilo when her car overturned 21 miles from town, police said. Jordal was taken to Queen's Hospital, where she was in serious condition today.

Her son, Joshua Hirakawa, was pronounced dead at 7:58 p.m. at Hilo Hospital.

A standard negligent homicide investigation has begun.



Employees fired on near Waikiki club

Two shots were fired from a car at two men outside the Cellar nightclub in Waikiki early today, police said.

No one was injured in the shootings. Police later found three people in the suspect vehicle, a rented white Cadillac, in Ewa Beach.

The first shot was fired at 3:50 a.m. at two employees outside the club's basement parking garage on Lewers Street, police said. Moments later, another shot was fired in front of the Imperial of Waikiki at one of the men, who had chased the car.

Police recovered a casing from a 9mm handgun.



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