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Corrections and clarifications >> Family and friends of Antone S. Olim may visit from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at Star of the Sea Church, 4470 Aliikoa St. Mass will be at 12:30 p.m., and burial is to follow at 2 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Time and location of the visitation and services were incorrectly reported in a story on Page C6 on Monday. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Managing Editor Frank Bridgewater at 529-4791 or email him at fbridgewater@starbulletin.com.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

LEEWARD OAHU

Woman, 28, confesses in Waipahu shooting

A 28-year-old woman admitted shooting a man in a car near Waipahu High School Aug. 21, according to a police affidavit.

Police charged Totie Tauala with second-degree murder in the death of Hayward Julio along Waipio Point Access Road. Police arrested her Friday night.

Tauala claims Julio tried to make sexual advances toward her and stole personal property, according to the affidavit.

Police were sent to investigate a report of a man armed with a gun standing outside a vehicle arguing with a woman on Waipio Point Access Road and Awailai Street.

Police dispatch told the officers the woman inside the vehicle had been shot.

Police discovered the victim in the driver's seat was a man with multiple gunshot wounds to the chin, neck and chest. The victim was later identified as Julio.

Police said witnesses described a man in his 30s, about 5 feet 8, 180 pounds with brown hair in a pony tail.

A second suspect was described as a female, 5 feet, 110 pounds with straight dark brown hair and a fair complexion.

Both fled the scene in a gray Pontiac Grand Am.

A witness identified one of the females in the car as "Tote," and that she and the victim had been at 94-075 Poailani Circle in Waipahu.

According to one witness who was at the Poailani Circle home, Julio cornered Tauala in a bedroom. Tauala was crying and asking "You not going to that, heh?" the affidavit said.

Tauala told police that on Aug. 21, she went to the Poailani Circle house with Renee Blades.

While there, Julio asked her for drugs, and she gave him a large "rock," the affidavit states.

She told police Julio touched her all over and made sexual advances, police said.

Tauala left with Blades in her car and Julio motioned her to follow him.

Tauala told police she got into the passenger seat of Julio's car and pointed a gun at him to scare him and to retrieve her stolen property and Blades' phone, but he made sexual remarks, police said.

At that point, she told him she didn't want to and fired two shots and unloaded the clip on him, police said.

She then got back into her car with Blades driving and they headed to town.

WINDWARD OAHU

Police name 3 girls who fled Kailua facility

Police released the names last night of three of the eight juvenile girls still at large after escaping from a cottage near the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua on Saturday.

Police said all three were held for crimes that involved the use of force or violence or the threat of force or violence that is punishable as a felony.

Leah Castro, 17, is 5-feet, 120 pounds with an average build. She is described as having dark brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on her right leg.

Police further described her having tattoos; one on her back; an "L" and cross on her right calf; and "B187" on her left wrist.

Shaena Nakooka, 16, is 5-feet-5, 125 pounds with an average build. She is described as having dark brown hair and brown eyes with a scar on her right knee and a tattoo on her left leg.

Tiare Perez, 17, is 5-feet, 100 pounds with an average build. She is described as having dark brown hair and brown eyes and a scar on her left arm.

Police said Perez has tattoos of three dots on her left finger, a heart on her left hand and "T" on her right hand.

Police said the three girls are considered dangerous.

Police said 10 girls overpowered two guards employed by Child and Family Services and fled in a van. Police recovered the van Sunday along Keolu Drive in nearby Enchanted Lake. Two of the girls, ages 15 and 16, have since been arrested.

Anyone who has information on the eight remaining fugitives may call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Maui man struck and killed in bus accident

WAILUKU >> A 92-year-old Maui man died after a bus struck him in Kahului.

Koichi Ito was in the crosswalk at the intersection of Kaulewahine Street and West Kamehameha Avenue when he was struck by a school bus at about 6:37 a.m. yesterday, Police Lt. Charles Hirata said.

Ito, pronounced dead later at Maui Memorial Medical Center, was the 12th traffic fatality this year on Maui, compared to 16 for the same period last year.

Hirata said police investigators were looking at whether drugs, alcohol or speed contributed to the accident.

WAIKIKI

Waikiki man alleges home robbery

Police are looking for two men who robbed a 50-year-old Waikiki man in his apartment on Monday, police said.

The man told police he was asleep in his Beach Walk Lane studio with his front door open, when he was awakened by two men standing at his doorway.

One of suspects allegedly held a sharp object and demanded money, while the other searched his room.

The man yelled for help, police said.

The suspects then fled on foot with some personal property.

Police said both women managed to leave the house and called police who arrested the man.