Tara Tevaga, a 44-year-old Native Hawaiian woman from Honolulu, died there on September 24, 2016, a loss later recorded in an obituary that named her family and the home she came from.
In the years that followed, court records show prosecutors tied her death to a single episode in Honolulu that also involved a violent attack on another person the same day. The State’s case named Alabanza C. Tuimalealiifano as the defendant, and the charging lineup reflected how investigators and prosec
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