Updated at 12:14 p.m., Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Big Isle man accused of killing son, unborn child sued by ex-wife
By Peter Sur
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
HILO – A Big Island man who has been charged with murdering his 14-year-old son and unborn child in a knife attack is being sued by his estranged wife.
Cheryl-Lyn Vesperas filed lawsuits last week against Tyrone Vesperas in Third Circuit Court on behalf of herself and her late son, Tyran Vesperas-Saniatan.
Tyran, 14, died on Kamehameha Day, 2007. The boy’s death stemmed from a physical confrontation between his parents, Cheryl and Tyrone, in the Ainaloa home the couple once shared.
Police have said that Tyrone Vesperas stabbed his estranged wife repeatedly in the abdomen with a military-issue combat knife, and Tyran was stabbed in the neck when he tried to intervene.
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