GARY T. KUBOTA / GKUBOTA@STARBULLETIN.COM Police have impounded a pickup truck believed to have been involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash on Maui.

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Suspect may
have fled Maui

Police seek a native of Mexico
in a fatal hit-and-run crash

WAILUKU » Maui police investigators are asking for the public's help in locating a man believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run crash in Kaanapali that killed a bicyclist who was returning home from work at the Royal Lahaina Resort.

Traffic investigator Lawrence Becraft said the suspect, 19-year-old Francisco Montiel of Kahana, is believed to have fled to his native country of Mexico.

"We're asking public assistance in locating where he may reside in Mexico," Becraft said yesterday.

Becraft said Montiel, a resident alien, had attended Lahainaluna High School and was working in the construction industry.

He said Montiel, who has not been charged, left Maui with his girlfriend on the day of the crash last Wednesday.

Montiel's blue Chevy S10 pickup, the passenger-side windshield shattered from an outside impact, was found in the parking lot of his apartment complex Thursday after police received an anonymous tip, Becraft said.

Becraft said the bicyclist, 40-year-old Lloyd Von Stockhausen Jr., died shortly after the crash occurred about 12:30 a.m.

A passerby reported seeing what might be a body on the makai shoulder of Honoapiilani Highway north of Puukolii Road shortly after 3:20 a.m., he said.

Police have interviewed a man whose Ford Taurus car later struck the bicycle as it lay on the roadway.

Friend Sandra Nealson said Stockhausen was returning home to his Honokowai apartment from work when he was struck by a vehicle.

Stockhausen had a contract to take care of the cabana and beach chairs at the resort.

Some 50 people, including his parents Lloyd and Carol, brother Kevin, and sister Stacey from St. Louis, attended a service for Stockhausen on Monday at Kaanapali beach, where friends heard some of his songs and poems.

Nealson said Stockhausen, who played a variety of instruments, including the guitar, drums, harp and keyboards, didn't drink alcohol and ate raw food.

She said in addition to composing his own music, he had received his license to conduct weddings and had performed his first wedding recently after a minister failed to show up.

Nealson said Stockhausen composed a special poem for the ceremony and the couple was so happy that when they returned home, they sent him a note of thanks along with a photograph.

"They wrote him, saying, 'You are such a special man. You saved our day, and you created a special sermon,' " she said.

Lynn Geving, who also works in the beach activities business, said Stockhausen was always cheerful and a very loyal friend.

Geving recalled how Stockhausen took time off to travel to the Big Island to be with a friend who was dying of cancer.

"He led his life his way. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him," Geving said.