TOCHIGI, May 16 (News On Japan) –
A 16-year-old boy newly arrested over a robbery-murder case in Kamimikawa, Tochigi Prefecture, during which a 69-year-old lady was killed throughout a house invasion on May 14th, was a classmate on the identical highschool as one other teenage suspect already in custody, police revealed.
Investigators imagine the assault could have been carried out by a loosely related prison group recognized in Japan as “Tokuryu.”
According to police, a number of intruders compelled their manner into the home shortly earlier than 9:30 a.m. on May 14th whereas trying to find valuables. The suspects allegedly encountered resident Eiko Tomiyama, 69, and fatally stabbed her with what authorities described as some type of weapon.
Tomiyama was later present in a ransacked room with a stab wound to the chest. Her eldest and second sons have been additionally attacked, reportedly overwhelmed with a crowbar-like object and struggling accidents to their arms and heads.
Police first arrested a 16-year-old male highschool scholar from Sagamihara City in Kanagawa Prefecture on suspicion of robbery-murder. Investigators mentioned {the teenager} was taken into custody shortly after the incident after officers noticed him strolling close to the scene whereas making an attempt to cover his face together with his arms.
Police later arrested one other 16-year-old boy, who claims to be a highschool scholar, after finding him as he emerged from his residence in Sagamihara. He was additionally arrested on suspicion of robbery-murder.
According to investigators, the 2 suspects have been college students in the identical grade on the identical highschool.
Police imagine a number of folks have been concerned within the assault. Witnesses reported seeing a suspicious individual dressed fully in black, sporting a balaclava and carrying what gave the impression to be a crowbar within the neighborhood shortly earlier than the crime.
Investigators additionally mentioned suspicious vehicles and bikes had been noticed round Tomiyama’s residence and the residence of her second son a number of occasions between late April and early May.
Police mentioned there was no recognized connection between Tomiyama and the teenage suspects. Authorities are persevering with to seek for different people believed to have participated within the assault whereas investigating doable hyperlinks to a Tokuryu group, a time period utilized in Japan to explain loosely organized prison networks fashioned by way of social media and underground recruitment channels.
Previously: 16-Year-Old Arrested Over Fatal Robbery at Tochigi Home
Source: TBS