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Pair stabbed; husband dies,
wife in hospital

By Jaymes K. Song
Star-Bulletin

Police are investigating the slaying of a 44-year-old Mililani man who was found dead on his living room floor with a stab wound to his neck.

The man's wife called 911 at 11:30 p.m. to report that she and her husband were injured, police said. Officers and paramedics found the couple on the floor of their home at 95-1023 Wekiu St. with stab wounds to their necks.

The husband was pronounced dead at the scene, said Homicide Lt. William Kato. His wife, 45, was taken to Queen's Hospital where she was in fair condition this morning after surgery. She was expected to be interviewed today about the stabbing.

Police were investigating whether the stabbing was a murder-suicide attempt.

A large kitchen knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was recovered near the husband's body, police said. There were two women and four children at home during the stabbing, including the couple's two teen-age sons. A niece, nephew and the woman's mother and her husband's mother did not hear arguing or anything unusual.

"They didn't wake up until the officers were knocking on their door," Kato said.

Emi Fukuda and several other residents of the quiet, suburban neighborhood near Mililani High School were surprised to find television cameras and yellow police tape surrounding their neighbors' home this morning.

Fukuda said her neighbors are a "nice family," and said there were no signs of trouble or domestic abuse.

Police said they had never responded to the house for any type of calls.

Kyle Girmsey, a 15-year-old Mililani High School sophomore, went to the house this morning to walk to school with the family's 17-year-old son -- not knowing what happened hours earlier.

Girmsey said his friend's family went to church, enjoyed going to the beach and was "real nice."

Neighbors said the woman works in the pharmacy at Wahiawa General Hospital.

If the death is classified as a domestic-violence murder, it would be the fourth this year on Oahu involving a husband and wife. That does not include Mui Lan Esposo-Aguiar, 39, who died last week at Straub Hospital after she was allegedly torched by her husband, Gregory Aguiar, at their Kauai home.

The three Oahu domestic-violence murders this year:

Allan Dequito, 27, shot and killed his wife, Andrea Belcina-Dequito, 27, before turning the gun on himself at their Ewa home on Feb. 2.

Sabrina Fiaai, 36, was arrested for reportedly stabbing her husband Abe, 36, in the throat while he was sleeping at a Makakilo home on Feb. 7. She was released while prosecutors consider her husband's multiple convictions of spousal abuse.

Saturnino Millon, 37, was charged in connection with the stabbing death of his wife, Erlinda, 35, at their Mayor Wright Housing unit on March 18.