A millionaire killed in a moped accident had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit when he crashed into a bus stop sign in Kaimuki earlier this week, according to the Honolulu Medical Examiner's office.

Officials listed the cause of death for 47-year-old DeWayne McKinney as multiple internal injuries due to the crash, with alcohol intoxication as a contributing factor, said Dr. William Goodhue, first deputy medical examiner. Tests showed that McKinney's blood-alcohol level was .223. The legal limit is .08.

McKinney made millions of dollars with an ATM business in Hawai'i after spending nearly two decades in a California prison for a murder he didn't commit.

His fiancee of two years yesterday said McKinney loved life, and tried to make the most of it since his prison release.

"It's so sad," Starr Anastasio said in a telephone interview. "He loved life. He made the most of it and tried to make up for lost time. For me, he was magic. He was spur-of-the-moment. Just an ordinary person, even with all that money."

McKinney was on Wai'alae Avenue shortly after midnight Tuesday, heading toward Kahala, when the moped he was driving drifted to the right and left the road just before 14th Avenue. He hit a bus stop sign pole, struck a wooden utility pole and was thrown from his moped. Initially, police said that alcohol did not appear to be a factor in the wreck, but speed may have been.

Anastasio did not want to comment on McKinney's blood-alcohol level. She said that he had been out most of the day and she had not been with him.

A gang member as a teenager, McKinney was wrongfully convicted of a 1980 robbery-murder at a Burger King in California and spent 19 years in prison. He was set free in 2000 when a career criminal confessed to the crime.

McKinney arrived in Hawai'i in 2001 and started his Island ATM business with a $1.7 million settlement from the Orange County Police Department. At the time of his death, he owned 42 ATMs on three islands and had a net worth of more than $6 million.

Anastasio said she and McKinney were working on their relationship and had been in therapy. In June, they had agreed to put their wedding date on hold.

"Our big fun was beachcombing," Anastasio said. "He called it treasure hunting. He was the kindest man that I've ever known. He had a big heart and that's why I agreed to marry him.

"He just didn't have the social skills and life skills because he had never experienced things because he had been in prison."

Anastasio said that she and McKinney's ex-wife, Jeanine McKinney, and their son, Anthony, have planned a beach-side memorial service in Lanikai for 5 p.m. Wednesday.