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XEROX SHOOTINGS
City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle today asked the Hawaii Paroling Authority to order Xerox gunman Byran Uyesugi to serve a minimum 235 years in prison for killing seven co-workers and attempting to kill an eighth man. Carlisle: Hold
Uyesugi 235 yearsBy Debra Barayuga
Star-Bulletin"One year for every year that the victims were expected to live. One year for every year Byran Uyesugi took from the families, for what he stole from the families," Carlisle said.
The November 1999 slayings were the worst multiple murders in Hawaii's history.
Uyesugi's public defender waived their presence at today's hearing, which was held to decide how long Uyesugi must spend in prison before he can seek parole on a second-degree attempted-murder charge. He is accused of trying to shoot co-worker Stephen Matsuda.
Today's hearing was "largely symbolic," Carlisle said, because Judge Marie Milks already had sentenced Uyesugi to a consecutive life term, without the possibility of parole, for his conviction in June of first-degree murder for the multiple slayings.
Matsuda, who barely escaped being struck by a bullet, feels lucky he managed to escape. But, he said, "I can see the pain and terror they must (have been) going through when I was running down the stairway and the bullet hit the electric box that probably saved my life."
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