Malia Kahalewai, a 24-year-old Native Hawaiian woman, was killed on March 20, 2013, after a night of fear and pleading at the Kawela Barns Apartments on Molokai. Public reporting and court records describe her as being at a friend’s home when her longtime boyfriend, Marlin Lavoie, came looking for her and tried to get her to leave with him and return to his residence. She refused. The argument did not end there. After she went outside and sat on a porch couch with friends nearby, he retrieved
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