A funeral procession made its way through the streets of Hilo, car after car, celebrating the life of Samuel Mwarey his life taken suddenly in January on Kapiolani Street.
Hundreds paid their final respects late last week to a 16-year-old Hilo High School junior who died in January from injuries he received after being struck as a pedestrian by an on-duty Hawaii Police Department officer at the wheel of a blue-and-white police cruiser.