Evelyn S.A. Luka

Arm stamp may lead
police to Salt Lake
woman’s attacker

By Mary Adamski
Star-Bulletin

Police investigating the assault of a Salt Lake woman early Monday are trying to find the source of a nightclub arm stamp.

Evelyn S. A. Luka, 20, is in critical condition at Queen's Hospital, unconscious since she was found at 8 a.m. Monday near the Ka Uka Boulevard exit from H-2 Freeway.

Detective Alex Garcia said Luka received "life-threatening" internal injuries in an attack that occurred sometime after she left the Venus Night Club at 1349 Kapiolani Blvd. more than seven hours earlier.

Garcia said Luka's husband, who is in the military, dropped her off at the club Sunday night and intended to pick her up. She called him at 12:30 a.m. Monday to say she was getting a ride home with a friend.

Honolulu Police Department photo
Honolulu police are trying to identify a nightclub stamp
on the arm of assault victim Evelyn S.A. Luka,
who is hospitalized in critical condition.

Luka met friends at the club, where she was a regular customer, but no one could tell police who left with her.

There was an additional club stamp on her arm, apparently from a place she visited later. Police released a photograph of the stamp -- a petroglyph image of a Hawaiian warrior holding a spear -- and are asking for the public's help in identifying its source.

Anyone with information about where Luka went and who accompanied her is asked to call Garcia or CrimeStoppers.

Luka's fully clothed body was found by a passer-by. A passing off-duty police officer called an ambulance.

Garcia said evidence indicates she was assaulted elsewhere. She had carried a small backpack containing her wallet, but they were not found at the scene.

Police traced her identity through an engraving in a class ring she wore.