A Samoan author is charged with killing another prominent Samoan writer and academic, who also was the aunt of former U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
In this photo provided by David Gabbard, David poses for a photo with his sister, Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, on Dec. 2, 2023, in Cedar Creek, Texas, U.S. An author in Samoa has been charged with murdering Sinavaiana-Gabbard, a prominent Samoan writer and the aunt of former U.S. congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard , authorities in the South Pacific island nation said Friday, June 7, 2023.
She and Figiel, a poet and novelist, had been friends for 30 years, said Samoa’s deputy police commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tiai-Keti in written comments provided to AP. The women had argued on the day Sinavaiana-Gabbard was killed, Tiai-Keti said. Officials could not confirm a cause of death for Sinavaiana-Gabbard. A forensic pathologist was due to travel from Fiji to Apia, a city of 36,000 people on Samoa’s second-largest island, Upolu, to conduct an autopsy later this month.
“I was a rascal growing up, and that’s an understatement. But she always stayed positive and always encouraged me to pray to God and ask for his mercy and his love,” said the late writer's brother, Mike Gabbard, a Democratic state senator from Hawaii.
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