3 men sought in road-rage slaying
Friends have kind words for the victim of the deadly beating
Police were still searching for three men who allegedly beat a Waianae man to death in an apparent road rage incident Friday night.
The medical examiner identified the victim as Roger A. Haudenshild, 47.
Police said Haudenshild was riding his bicycle on Farrington Highway when he got into some kind of traffic incident involving a white Ford pickup truck shortly before 6:30 p.m. near Old Government Road.
Three men in the pickup truck caught up with Haudenshild in front of Waianae Market and beat him to death, police said.
Haudenshild was a 1978 graduate of Waianae High School and played on the football team, friends said.
People living at Maili Beach said they knew Haudenshild and thought he was also homeless.
Friends said Haudenshild always had a smile and would say hello to people he knew as he rode his bike regularly on the highway.
Haudenshild played nose guard on the Waianae High School varsity football team in 1977, the year the school won the Prep Bowl, the state championship at the time.
Jay Amina, the pastor of Ark of Safety Christian Fellowship in Waianae, played on the defensive line with Haudenshild in high school.
"I just last week saw Roger riding his bike with his girlfriend," Amina said. "He just waved and said, 'Hey, Jay.'"
Amina remembered Haudenshild always had a smile on his face.
"You'll never find him on a down moment, being sad," he said.
Haudenshild returned from the mainland a few years ago and often saw Amina on the street, asking him for work. He didn't have any at the time, Amina said.
Store owner Ngochoa Nguyen of Nail Tips, located next door to Waianae Market, said she didn't hear any commotion when Haudenshild was assaulted.
"I was surprised to not hear anybody yell or scream because it's a busy time," Nguyen said.
"I walked outside my shop. That's when I saw legs and feet on the ground," she said.
Katherine Aldeguer, getting her nails done at Nail Tips, went to high school with Haudenshild.
He had lots of friends and a good personality, she remembered.
She said she was concerned about a violent death could happen in the area.
"You get all kinds of people come to this store (Waianae Market). Pretty much everybody in Waianae comes to this store," she said.
He was a "very happy person in school," said Audrey Ala, another classmate. "He never had any negative thoughts about anybody else."
Ala said he had two older brothers, a younger sister, and lived with an aunt during the last years of high school. She recalled his activities: wrestling, playing football and baseball, surfing, and serving in student government.
After high school, Ala carpooled with Haudenshild to Leeward Community College.
"After a semester or so, he transferred out to a junior college in California," said Ala, who works at Waianae Intermediate School.
She didn't see him again until the 10-year high school reunion at the Pagoda Hotel in 1988.
That's when she learned that Haudenshild had been working for the Campbell Soup Company on the Mainland.
"He was humorous. It's sad to see how this happened to him," she said. "He pushed himself to be better. He never showed that he didn't have anything. He didn't have his parents around."