The aunt of ex-Democratic Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was stabbed multiple times and beaten with a hammer during a fight with her protege in Samoa last month, according to a report.
Dr. Caroline Sinaviana-Gabbard, 78, was found dead on May 25 inside award-winning Samoan playwright Papalii Sia Figiel’s home in Vaivase-Uta, according to Spectrum News.
The two women reportedly were alone inside Figiel’s home which doubles as the community’s local theater named GaluMoana Theater, when the deadly confrontation took place.
Sinaviana-Gabbard is believed to have been Figiel’s mentor.
Figiel reportedly fled to a friend’s house following the brutal attack and turned herself over to the police.
Figiel, 57, was initially arrested for manslaughter last Sunday, but her charges were upgraded to murder following an investigation.
“A hammer is alleged to have been used as well as a small knife that inflicted multiple stab wounds on the deceased,” Smoa Police Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo said, according to Somoanews.com.
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Dr. Caroline Sinaviana-Gabbard, 78, was found dead on May 25 inside award-winning Samoan playwright Papalii Sia Figiel’s home in Vaivase-Uta, according to Spectrum News.
The two women reportedly were alone inside Figiel’s home which doubles as the community’s local theater named GaluMoana Theater, when the deadly confrontation took place.
Sinaviana-Gabbard is believed to have been Figiel’s mentor.
Figiel reportedly fled to a friend’s house following the brutal attack and turned herself over to the police.
Figiel, 57, was initially arrested for manslaughter last Sunday, but her charges were upgraded to murder following an investigation.
“A hammer is alleged to have been used as well as a small knife that inflicted multiple stab wounds on the deceased,” Smoa Police Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo said, according to Somoanews.com.
Tulsi Gabbard’s aunt stabbed multiple times, beaten to death with hammer by prominent author: report
Papalii Sia Figiel, 57, was arrested Sunday following the death in Samoa of 78-year-old Caroline Sinaviana-Gabbard, a retired former University of Hawaii professor.
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