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Makakilo father
of four slain

His wife is arrested nearby

By Rod Ohira
Star-Bulletin

Having heard his passionate cry, "I love you, daddy," a family friend is trying to comfort a scared young boy whose 36-year-old father was stabbed to death early today in Makakilo.

The boy's mother, 36, allegedly stabbed her husband with a small kitchen knife in unit 90 of the Palehua Hillside Townhomes complex, at 92-1302 Kikaha St., shortly before 4:11 a.m., said acting homicide Lt. Anderson Hee.

The woman fled the home on foot with the two youngest of her four children, but was arrested nearby at 6:18 a.m. The two youngest are girls, about 1 and 2, while the older two boys are believed to be pre-teens.

"What frightens me is he saw his father with the knife still in his throat," friend and neighbor Shirley Kilborn said of the boy she comforted.

"He says, 'I'm going to have bad dreams, Auntie,' so I told him to ask God to take them away," said Kilborn, who is not related to the boy. "I let him know that the last thing his father heard was him saying, 'I love you daddy.' "

Kilborn said the victim, tentatively identified by police as Abe Fiaai, his wife and four children had moved out of the four-bedroom unit, but recently returned.

The unit is being rented by Fiaai's sister and brother. The victim's niece, her husband and their three children also were living in the unit, Kilborn said.

"Abe was a nice, good-hearted man and his wife was very sweet," Kilborn said. "She was just telling me that they needed to make their marriage work because of the kids.

"When they moved out, I thought they had gotten an apartment, but I just found out they were homeless. They're very nice people, so I'm sure what happened occurred in the heat of the moment or from the stress of being homeless."

Kilborn, who opened her house to the two boys this morning, said she awoke to the sounds of shouting."I just caught the tail end of it. I could hear the father making a sound like he was throwing up. The kids were screaming, so I called police.

"Then I saw the boys running out and they were screaming, 'My daddy's dying.' I could see blood outside."

Fiaai reportedly woke one of his sons before staggering out through the front door and pulling the knife out. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:50 a.m., said Hee.

Today's incident is the second in the last five days where domestic violence has left children without parents. Last Wednesday in Ewa, Allen Dequito shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. Their daughter, 2, was not injured.

"Domestic violence accounts for a high percentage of homicides," Hee said, "so the fact that we've had two murders this year and both are domestics is not uncommon.

"But you cannot predict murders. Last year was a low one for domestic violence homicides."