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Honolulu police arrested a 58-year-old man Thursday evening in connection with an assault on Noland, 60, who had been on life support.
Police said this afternoon that indications are that the fall prompted by the assault, and not the blows themselves, are to blame for critical injuries Noland sustained.
Original Posting 6/15/18...
Honolulu police have initiated an attempted murder investigation after a longtime sports broadcaster was found unresponsive with a head injury.
According to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser John Noland, 60, is on life support at The Queen’s Medical Center. He was found on the ground fronting 1161 Maunakea St. about 1:40 a.m. Saturday.
Police did not release any additional information.
Noland had been a sportscaster for KHON2 in the early 1980s and later at K5, where he had a sports show. He also was a part of the Hawaii Pacific University television broadcast team with Bob Hogue in the early 2000s. The pair covered basketball and volleyball games that aired on OC16.
In radio, his career included stints at KUMU and K-108, as well as a morning show on KGU radio with Mike Buck.
His daughter Alana Noland described her father as a man with a big heart who loves music, basketball and spending time with his family and friends. She recalled that when she was out with him, people often would stop by, introduce themselves and chat with him.
She said her father was attempting to return to radio and get his show back up and running. “He just loves being a sportscaster,” she said during a phone interview from Washington state.
Bob Hogue, commissioner of the PacWest Conference and former KHON2 sportscaster, has known Noland for at least 30 years, when Hogue first started working at the television station.
Hogue said he turned numb when he heard about Noland’s condition. “We’re all praying for him and hoping he would recover.”
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