KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have revealed {that a} 75-year-old man was discovered lifeless along with his legs and fingers certain inside his residence in Yokohama City on Wednesday.
The case is being handled as homicide. Police suspect that the incident is linked to a sequence of break-ins and robberies which have taken place within the Kanto space in latest weeks, studies NHK (Oct. 18).
At round 9:30 a.m., a feminine neighbor of the residence in Aoba Ward referred to as police to say say {that a} window on the entrance had been open because the earlier evening.
Officers arrived to search out Hiroharu Goto collapsed in a dressing room along with his fingers and legs certain with adhesive tape. He was confirmed lifeless on the scene.
An examination of his physique revealed a considerable variety of bruises, indicating that he had been assaulted.
Goto shared the residence, situated about two kilometers northwest of Ichigao Station on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line, along with his spouse, who was out on the time of the invention.
Subsequent investigations have revealed that roughly 200,000 yen in money is lacking from the house, police stated.
Goto is believed to have died on the Tuesday, the day earlier than his physique was discovered. Upon the invention, the entrance door was not locked and a close-by window was damaged, main police to imagine that somebody broke into the premises.
In addition, the home confirmed indicators of getting been ransacked, and there have been additionally indications that a number of folks entered the home whereas carrying footwear.
Since August, a sequence of robbery-murder instances have taken place in Saitama and Chiba prefectures and Tokyo. In these instances, the perpetrators had been recruited via on-line affords of “high-paying work.” Police imagine the homicide of Goto is one other potential case.