Nude ex-OC pupil charged with beating to demise safety guard in Maui – Orange County Register

A former Concordia University champion swimmer was charged with second-degree homicide final week for allegedly beating a safety guard in Maui to demise with a 5-gallon water bottle whereas nude, authorities mentioned.

Legend Storer, who’s listed on the personal Irvine college’s ultimate males’s swim staff within the 2024-25 faculty 12 months, has pleaded not responsible to the costs, which additionally embody first-degree housebreaking and indecent publicity, court docket data present.

Concordia University officers on Monday confirmed that Storer attended the college and was the identical individual charged with the crimes in Hawaii.

Storer is accused of illegally coming into the workplace of a condominium advanced in Kahana, on the western facet of Maui, round 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, and killing 63-year-old Michael Dyer, in accordance with the Maui Police Department and a prison grievance filed by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

A coworker of Dyer’s informed a neighborhood media outlet, Hawaii News Now, that he was contained in the workplace consuming a cheeseburger on a lunch break when the assault occurred. Dyer was married and had no kids.

Dyer’s household, in a statement to the outlet, mentioned “Mike was a family man and very devoted to his wife, Joy. Our family is in the process of setting up a GoFundMe to help with this sudden and tragic event.”

When reached Sunday, Storer’s lawyer declined to remark. His mom hung up on a reporter and his father didn’t reply to a message searching for remark.

The assault was caught on surveillance video, police mentioned. More than an hour after the assault, at simply previous 3 a.m., police obtained a report of a nude man wandering by a Kahana neighborhood. Officers mentioned they discovered Storer a half hour later with quite a few abrasions. He was taken to a hospital for analysis.

Police then obtained calls round 5:35 a.m. of an unresponsive man and located Dyer lifeless on the advanced, police mentioned.

After viewing the surveillance video, detectives mentioned they discovered the person who was taken to the hospital was the identical one who attacked Dyer. The man, who was solely recognized as being 20-years previous by police, was arrested.

A prison grievance filed by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Maui recognized Storer as the person who allegedly killed Dyer. A motive and another particulars relating to the assault weren’t out there.

In Hawaii, suspect identities and dates of delivery usually are not launched by police as a result of a court docket of appeals ruling “recognizing that such information can remain publicly accessible online indefinitely, even if charges are later dropped or an individual is found not guilty,” a notice from the police information launch states.

“After Concordia discontinued the Men’s Swim program in May 2025, Legend did not return as a student,” Ann Ashmon, affiliate vice chairman of strategic communications, verified on Monday.

Before Concordia, Storer attended Maui Preparatory Academy and was a member of the Lahaina Swim Club.

At Maui Preparatory Academy, he was a two-time Maui Interscholastic League champion, in accordance with his profile on Concordia University’s website.

Storer is being held in jail in Maui on no bail.

Due to Dyer’s age – the grievance references Storer as “an offender against the elderly” – Storer could face a harsher sentence if convicted. The Prosecuting Attorney’s Office refers to aged as “a person who has the status of being sixty years of age or older at the time of the crime.”

Staff author Victoria Le contributed to this report.