Brutal beating that ended the life of a Kauai man under investigation

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Authorities are investigating a beating on an east Kauaʻi shoreline that left a man near death, crying out for help on the side of a busy highway.

Loved ones identified the victim of the attack as 56-year-old David Laʻamea.

They say he was houseless for some time, and was living on the shores of Wailua Beach across the old Coco Palms Hotel when he was brutally attacked sometime in the evening of Sunday, Aug. 24…

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