The victim, Michael Kocher Jr., 19, was walking along a Kauai highway around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 4 when he was hit first by a driver in a Toyota Corolla. Magayanes was responding to the scene of that accident when he struck Kocher a second time.
Magayanes’s police powers have been revoked, according to The Garden Island, and he will appear in court Aug. 25.
In a statement Friday, Kauai Police Department Chief Darryl Perry extended his sympathy to the Kocher family, as well as to Magayanes, “whose every intention that night was to assist in an emergency.”
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