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Sixteen-year-old Gabriel Robinson, an Iolani School student, was in fair condition at Queen’s Hospital today with multiple broken bones including shoulder and leg injuries.
“Six days in the bush, I don’t think he could’ve lasted much longer,” said Honolulu police Detective Joe Self of the missing person’s detail.
Firefighters from Rescue 2 company rappelled down the cliff to search yesterday at Self’s request A police spokesman said Self determined that Gabriel was seen last Tuesday near the lookout.
The boy had been reported missing Saturday by his family, who had started posting “missing person” fliers around town.
He was reclassified as a missing person after his mother called police. The case was assigned to Self yesterday.
“He had a hunch. No one knew for sure the boy was there,” said Honolulu fire Capt. Eric Adams. He said searchers found Robinson about 300 feet below the lookout. “He had broken bones and a million mosquito bites.”
That work, Saiki said yesterday, should not disqualify David Matsuura from succeeding his father.
"I feel Gov. Ben Cayetano should grant Sen. Matsuura his wish (that David Matsuura be appointed to replace him) and that politics should be put aside," said Saiki, a former U.S. representative who finished third to then-Lt. Gov. Cayetano in the 1994 gubernatorial race.
While the younger Matsuura has worked on political campaigns, including his father's, he has never held an elected office.
Saiki said: "I would like to think the governor would make an appointment based on qualifications and special circumstances like this."
Last month, doctors discovered that Matsuura, 64, has cancer of the pancreas. It since has spread to his liver. On Friday, Matsuura asked Cayetano to appoint David Matsuura as his replacement.
"We can't go out when it rains. ... It could be a very life-threatening thing here if they don't take care of that mountain behind us," Treacy said.
The second landslide caused by heavy rains in a little more than two months came down the hill into the condominium project's parking lot Sunday night.
Her Sunday experience included trying to drive home about 8 p.m., having to turn back about half way up Kili Drive because of water cascading down, then going up Makaha Valley Road and still being blocked by surging water.
"It took me 45 minutes to get up to my own property," she said.
Unlike the slide early Nov. 14 that damaged about 60 cars - about half of those in the parking lot - the Sunday night slide affected only a few, said Henry Jaran, president of the board of directors, association of apartment owners.
"No cars were destroyed," he said.
There were a few broken headlights, and some cars had muddy water in them, he said.
As a result, it's not always easy to tell if it's day or night where North Kukui Street runs between Nuuanu Avenue and the Pali Highway.
Fed up with prostitution and drug dealing at the foot of their 957-unit twin towers, plaza residents opted to put together a few thousand dollars to buy six 1,000-
watt lights to flood the mauka side of the complex with unusually bright light.
"You need sunglasses, almost, to come down that street," said Dolores Mollring, head of the Kukui Plaza citizens patrol.
North Kukui Street is the quickest but not always safest way to get from the towers to the Pali Highway Safeway and Longs Drug Store.
In the daytime, panhandlers approach customers in the alleyway leading to the shopping center parking lot. At night, the activity is more illicit, said plaza general manager Russell Hoselton.
"There's a door that leads to our garage that a lot of residents use to go to Longs," he said. On some occasions, before the lights were installed this month, he said, "When they swung the door outward it would hit somebody that's sitting there smoking crack."
Other safety improvements have included removing shrubbery and a large tree on the block.
The man remained in guarded condition and the woman improved to fair condition, hospital officials said.
Police arrested two men, 19 and 22, suspected of stabbing the male victim fronting 87-2196 Farrington Highway in Waianae just before 11 p.m.
Police are investigating robbery as a possible motive for the stabbing.
Patrol officers were sent to the area after receiving a report of a man lying on the ground - the victim of a possible assault.
A witness who stopped to give aid provided police with a description of two males fleeing the area.
Two men were located nearby a short time later and were identified as the men who fled the area.
Police found no weapons.
Earlier in the evening, a 19-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man were arrested for investigation of attempted murder and assault in the stabbing of the woman, who confronted the couple at their Pupuole Street apartment in Waipahu.
The female suspect and victim earlier had been involved in a dispute at another location over a jacket, police said. At the time, the male suspect had allegedly pulled the victim's hair.
The victim, of Pupukahi Street, allegedly showed up at the couple's building around 10:30 p.m. and damaged several jalousies.
The couple allegedly came out of their apartment and attacked her outside.
Police recovered a knife in the area believed to be the weapon used.
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