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Ocean View man indicted for manslaughter in fatal pedestrian crash

A Kona grand jury on Wednesday returned an indictment against 24-year-old Janne Labin of Ocean View for allegedly striking and killing a pedestrian with a pickup truck May 30 in Kailua-Kona.

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The indictment charges Labin with manslaughter, first-degree negligent homicide and DUI.

Labin is being held at Kealakehe police station, unable to post $150,000 bail.

According to police, officers responding to a 7:28 p.m. call determined that Labin was driving a white 2017 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck Kona-bound on the Old Kona Airport roadway when he veered off the paved portion of the roadway onto an unfinished gravel area and struck a man who was walking south on the unpaved portion of the runway.

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The pedestrian, identified in court documents as 59-year-old Donald Tibbitts, was taken first by ambulance to Kona Community Hospital, then airlifted to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, where he died on June 4.

Manslaughter is a Class A felony that carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, while first-degree negligent homicide is a Class B felony with a potential 10-year prison sentence. Labin cannot be convicted of both charges.

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See Friday’s Tribune-Herald for a more complete story.

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