A state jury found a Waianae woman guilty Wednesday of leaving the scene of a fatal pedestrian traffic accident on Farrington Highway in 2014.
Francine Marshall-Wun, 48, faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing in October.
Marshall-Wun testified that she was driving back to where she was living at Waianae Boat Harbor at about midnight Sept. 16, 2014, with food she had bought for her two sons at Jack in the Box, when she felt a bump. She said she didn’t stop because when she looked in her rearview mirror, she didn’t see anything and though she had hit a pothole.
Witnesses said the truck was traveling at a high rate of speed before they heard a loud thump. After the truck left, they saw 58-year-old Robert Kapololu Jr. lying on the highway in front of the Waianae Taco Bell. An ambulance took him in extremely critical condition to Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, where he later died.
Honolulu police said
Kapololu may have been standing at least partially on the highway when he was hit. They located the pickup truck at the harbor and arrested Marshall-Wun in connection with the hit-and-run incident and for operating a vehicle without a valid driver’s license.