Christopher Deedy, a U.S. State Department agent accused in the Waikiki death of a local man just before APEC, has gone home.

KITV reports that the 27-year-old took a late-night flight back to Virginia after Circuit Judge Karen Ahn granted him permission to leave Friday afternoon.

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