CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM The bus stop along Keeaumoku Street where a 32-year-old Walmart employee was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife Saturday night.
1/2 CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM The bus stop along Keeaumoku Street where a 32-year-old Walmart employee was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife Saturday night.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JANUARY 24 Honolulu Police Lieutenant Deena Thoemmes 2/2 CRAIG T. KOJIMA / January 24 Honolulu Police Lieutenant Deena Thoemmes CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL @STARADVERTISER.COM The bus stop along the street Keeaumoku, where a 32-year-old Walmart employee was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife Saturday night.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / JANUARY 24 Honolulu Police Lt. Deena Thoemmes Honolulu Police today arrested a 33-year-old man suspected in a Saturday night stabbing outside the Keeaumoku Street Walmart store and in a separate case of early terroristic threat that night.
Police Lt. Deena Thoemmes said officers arrested the suspect this afternoon on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree terroristic threatening.
She said that at around 8.15pm on Saturday, the man had a knife and threatened to kill a security guard who asked him to leave a private property in the Ward Avenue area. The guard fled and called the police. He provided officers with a description of the suspect and the gun, Thoemmes said.
At around 9:55 pm on Saturday, a man matching the description allegedly attempted to rob a 32-year-old man, stabbing the victim in the chest with a kitchen knife outside the Keeaumoku Walmart. The suspect fled, but Thoemmes said officers found a backpack and a knife at the crime scene in Keeaumoku.
A Walmart spokesperson later identified the victim as a store employee. The victim’s identity was not immediately released.
Thoemmes said today that the victim remains in hospital in critical condition.
Police are seeking charges from the Honolulu District Attorney’s Office. The suspect has a criminal history, but it does not include violent crimes, Thoemmes said.
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