KANAGAWA –
Police in Kanagawa Prefecture have rearrested 4 youngsters on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old highschool scholar who died after being assaulted in Sagamihara in August.
The sufferer, Setsuna Shimizu, a second-year highschool scholar in Sagamihara, was assaulted in Chuo Ward of town on August 22 and later died.
Police had beforehand arrested 4 youngsters, two aged 16 and two aged 17, on suspicion of injuring a male junior highschool scholar who was with Shimizu on the time of the incident.
On September 20, police rearrested the 4 on suspicion of homicide, alleging that they killed Shimizu by assaulting him, together with hanging him within the head.
Police haven’t disclosed whether or not the 4 suspects have admitted or denied the allegations.
Investigators consider Shimizu and the junior highschool scholar had been driving a motorbike shortly earlier than the assault after they had been pursued by a automobile carrying the 4 youngsters.
The pair are then believed to have been assaulted, and police are persevering with to analyze the circumstances that led to Shimizu’s demise.
Source: FNN