Bare school swimmer killed safety guard earlier than fleeing on foot in Maui, police say

A school athlete was arrested Thursday and accused of killing a 63-year-old safety guard after police discovered him wandering bare by the streets of Maui.

Legend Storer, 20, was arrested and charged with second-degree homicide, first-degree housebreaking and indecent publicity, based on on-line court docket information. Storer was a pupil at Concordia University Irvine and a member of the college’s NCAA Division II swim crew through the 2024 to 2025 tutorial faculty yr, based on the crew’s roster.

He is accused of killing Michael Dyer, 63, of Lahaina, Hawaii, based on the court docket information. Dyer was working as a safety guard at a residential constructing in Lahaina, on Maui’s west coast, based on information launch by the Maui Police Department.

Storer has pleaded not responsible to the costs.

The Maui Police Department didn’t identify Storer however mentioned it acquired calls a few 20-year-old nude man wandering the streets of the close by Kahana neighborhood round 3 a.m. on Thursday.

Police mentioned they apprehended the person round 3:30 a.m. and took him to Maui Memorial Medical Center for analysis. He was “still unclothed and had sustained numerous abrasions” when officers discovered him, police mentioned.

At about 5:35 a.m., police mentioned they responded to a name about Dyer being discovered unresponsive. Upon arrival, officers discovered from medical personnel that Dyer had died of his accidents on the scene, police mentioned. The press launch doesn’t specify the character of Dyer’s accidents.

After reviewing surveillance footage, police mentioned they decided that the bare 20-year-old man approached the sufferer’s workplace at 1:45 a.m. that very same morning and “assaulted him before fleeing on foot.”

Authorities then transported Storer to Wailuku Police Station with out incident, based on the police division.

Concordia University Irvine didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

A biography for Storer on his swim crew’s web site says he swims the breaststroke and sprints and that he’s majoring in enterprise finance.