One man was hospitalized and another arrested Thursday following a stabbing in Puna, police said Friday.
One man was hospitalized and another arrested Thursday following a stabbing in Puna, police said Friday.
Officers responded to a 9:40 a.m. call on 15th Avenue in Hawaiian Paradise Park and found a 32-year-old man had been stabbed in his upper abdomen with a knife.
The victim was taken to the Hilo Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery, according to Capt. Robert Wagner of the Hawaii Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Section in Hilo. The man was then flown to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, originally in critical but stable condition at last report. His condition was later upgraded to serious but stable.
The suspect, 57-year-old Daniel Holland of Pahoa, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault.
He was released from custody Friday without being charged, pending further investigation.
Wagner described the altercation as a “domestic-type incident.” He said the victim was the estranged father of Holland’s daughter’s children.
“It happened at his (the victim’s) estranged girlfriend’s house, the lady who he had children with,” Wagner said “He lived with her off-and-on, but he wasn’t living there at the time.”
Wagner said Holland, who did not live at the house where the incident occurred, was there babysitting his daughter’s two small children.
“The female wasn’t there at the house at that time,” he said.
Asked if the children witnessed the stabbing, Wagner replied, “They were present in the house when it occurred.” He said the children weren’t physically harmed nor were they removed from the home by Child Welfare Services.
Wagner said officers recovered a knife at the crime scene.
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