KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) – A 30-year-old police officer on Hawaii’s Big Island was arrested and placed on administrative leave after he hit with his car and killed a bicyclist visiting from Michigan.
Hawaii Island police officer Jody Buddemeyer was arrested on suspicion of negligent homicide in connection with the death Sunday morning of Jeffrey Sunow, 63, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, according to West Hawaii Today, a newspaper in Kailua-Kona.
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The rising sun would likely have been in both men’s eyes at the time, Whitman said.
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