The Star-Bulletin beat the Advertiser again in reporting on the most recent Chinatown violence in which a man was stabbed and his female companion beaten.
S-B reporter Rob Shikina reported today:
Police confirmed that the victim in Friday’s stabbing is Antonius Toloai, 32.
Toloai and Iosefa Meafua Pasene, one of two men accused of killing Peneueta, were both arrested on drug charges in Aala Park, the day before Peneueta was shot to death on March 28, just three hours after Pasene was released on bail.
The other suspect indicted in Peneueta’s death, Zorro Ramon Rye, is a friend of Toloai, according to Rye’s attorney, Myles Breiner.
Breiner said his client believes the attack on his friend was in retaliation for Peneueta’s shooting.
Meanwhile, Advertiser reporter Mary Vorsino wrote:
Police have not linked the stabbing to the shooting of Joseph Peneueta, 35, who was gunned down at 4:10 a.m. March 28 by two men at the corner of Pauahi and River streets. Zorro Rye and Iosefa Pasene have been charged with second-degree murder in Peneueta’s death.
Vorsino didn’t pick up the link between the stabbing victim and the men charged in the earlier shooting.
It seems that the newspaper with the smaller staff and fewer resources is managing to add substantial value to at least some of their reporting.
Still on the crime beat, KGMB reported yesterday on a stabbing in Ahuimanu.
Honolulu Police responded to another stabbing on Oahu Friday night in Kaneohe on Ahuimanu Road. A 35-year-old man was arguing with the suspect when he was stabbed. A friend took the victim to a nearby fire station. He was then taken to a hospital in stable condition.
The Star-Bulletin had a brief item about the stabbing in its “Police and Fire” column:
Several males were reported fighting at an Ahuimanu Road address in Kaneohe at about 11:07 p.m., according to the report. A friend took the victim to the Kahaluu Fire Station and firefighters called police.
But one of the local television news channels reported last night the fight involved thirty men, a very different story. Unfortunately, looking through the broadcast station’s web sites this morning failed to turn up that particular report.
Is this another “brawl” that isn’t being reported as such?
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Is it just me or has the City Councilmember for this district (Rod Tam?) been totally missing on this most recent problem in Chinatown?
Let’s see, in all of the broadcast, print, and ‘net media I’ve seen in the past week there have been interviews/quotes from Brickwood Galuteria (the new Senator for the district), Karl Rhoads (State House Rep. for the district), Bill Brennan (mayor’s mouthpiece) but not a peep from “Mr. Malaprop” himself?
I guess he can’t blame the “wetbacks,” propose a new landfill in Koko Crater, or make any of his other singularly ridiculous and embarassing pronouncements but this IS a peculiarly local/City matter so where the heck is he?