POLICE BEAT
Pounders Beach victim identified
Advertiser Staff
The Honolulu medical examiner's office has identified the Oregon man who died Saturday after being pulled unconscious from the water at Pounders Beach in La'ie as David Swenson, 53.
An autopsy was to be performed today.
Swenson was pulled from the water at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and pronounced dead at Kahuku Hospital.
CRASH VICTIM WAS FROM HOLUALOA
Big Island police have identified a woman who died Saturday in a pickup truck crash on Saddle Road as Rhonda Bennett-Holloway of Holualoa.
Bennett-Holloway, 46, was driving a 2006 Ford Ranger east on Saddle Road, six-tenths of a mile west of the 27-mile marker, at 10:19 a.m. when she apparently lost control, police said.
She was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the truck, police said. She died at Hilo Medical Center Saturday at 2:05 p.m.
It was the Big Island's 23rd traffic death of the year.
MAN, 25, CRITICAL AFTER MOB ATTACK
A 25-year-old man was reported in critical condition after being stabbed outside a Kaka'ako-area nightclub early yesterday morning.
An arrest has been made, and detectives have opened an attempted-murder investigation in the case, police said.
Police said the victim was "mobbed" as he left the nightclub, near Pensacola and Kona streets, shortly before 4 a.m. yesterday.
He was stabbed several times in the chest in the melee that followed.
A 21-year-old man, who fled in a car headed north on Pi'ikoi Street, was arrested shortly afterward, police said.
The victim was taken to The Queen's Medical Center.
