In a lawsuit, the homeless man’s mother says her son was beaten to death.

On his 53rd birthday, Harley Morris arrived at Līhuʻe Airport in the early morning dark before the airline check-in counters and security checkpoints had opened. Morris wasn’t flying anywhere that day. He wanted to charge his cell phone. Newly homeless after his landlord raised the rent, he went to the departures lobby to find an outlet so he could coordinate plans for his annual birthday breakfast at Lilikoʻi Bar and Grill with his mom and two sisters.

The breakfast never happened.

Morris was detained by airport law enforcement officers, along with an airline employee, who called Kauaʻi police for backup with a disorderly man in the ticketing lobby. When police officers arrived on the scene about 4:30 a.m. on Feb

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