Child thrown to death on Hawaii freeway

Yahoo News ^ | AUDREY McAVOY

[Soothesayer]

HONOLULU - The man in hospital scrubs threw the toddler like a doll from a pedestrian overpass to the freeway humming with traffic. The 2 1/2-year-old boy fell 30 feet to the asphalt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The horrifying incident Thursday on the highway cutting through the heart of the city shocked Honolulu residents, causing panicked parents to phone day care centers to check on their children.

Police arrested a 23-year-old man they say occasionally baby-sat the child after witnesses saw him throwing something, followed him and called authorities.

Kraig Hengst told The Honolulu Advertiser he was working in an apartment garage across the street from the overpass when he saw a man "toss the baby" at about 11:40 a.m.

[caisson71]

One bystander tried to help and ended up in the hospital. The guy is a 300 lb. mental case and was probably on drugs. He could only have been stopped by a weapon carried by someone else. I don’t think a .38 would have helped much. A .44 Magnum would have been more appropriate......and final.

[Ignatz]

I think they meant the scumbag had the shotgun and was beating her with it.

That is something up with which I will not put.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Yeah, I saw that later. Says something about what drugs do to your body! I would have put him in his 40s based on the pic I saw. Yikes.

[Joan Kerrey]

Or placed in a pool of piranhas.

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And lowered into the pool an inch every 2 minutes.