Kauai Policeman Charged With Negligent Homicide in Pedestrian Fatality
Victim had already been hit by a car and was run over a second time by the officer was responding to the scene.
A Hawaii police officer is facing up to five years in prison for allegedly 聽while responding to the scene of an accident earlier this year.
Officer Irvin Magayanes of the Kauai Police Department was arrested last week and , a Class C felony.
Officer Irvin Magayanes
The victim, Michael Kocher Jr., 19, was walking along a Kauai highway around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 4 when he was . Magayanes was responding to the scene of that accident when he struck Kocher a second time.
Magayanes’s聽police powers have been revoked, according to The Garden Island, and he will appear in court Aug. 25.
聽against the driver who first hit Kocher.
In a statement Friday, Kauai Police Department Chief Darryl Perry extended his sympathy to the Kocher family, as well as to Magayanes, 鈥渨hose every intention that night was to assist in an emergency.”
