Family and friends of murder victim Kamuela Kaleikilo filled a courtroom with sorrow and rage this afternoon when alleged killer Chadwick Tadly appeared for a hearing in the case.

Noe Aguilar, an aunt of Kaleikilo, had to be forcibly removed from the court as she struggled to get at Tadly, 37.
“Let me get him,” she yelled as she was pushed out the door.
“I wanted to strangle him,” Aguilar said later.
Tadly, dressed in a white prison jumpsuit and shackled at the hands and feet, sat with his head down on the defendant’s table throughout the hearing.
HPD Detective Deena Thoemmes testified that Tadly told her he shot Kaleikilo, 22, New Year’s morning as the two men fought in Tadly’s Waipahu apartment.
Tadly said he had knocked the victim to the ground and was holding a gun while Kaleikilo struggled beneath him.
“He said that there was a struggle and that he (Kaleikilo) hit his hand” and the gun fired, Thomas said.
“He was unsure but it was like an accident,” Thoemmes said Tadly told her.
Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. Gayle Suzuki said the victim died from a “contact” bullet wound to the head.
Suzuki said tests showed the victim had used alcohol, methamphetamine and cocaine before he died.
After District Judge Rhonda Nishimura ruled that there was probable cause to hold Tadly for trial, supporters of the victim shouted curses and warnings at Tadly as he was taken by sheriffs from the court.
Lorreanne Kaleikilo, another aunt of the victim, said outside court, “This boy was loved.”
She said the number of his friends “could fill up the whole Aloha Stadium.”
Tadly is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
He will be arraigned on the second-degree murder charge Jan. 19.