Nara arson murder A man purchases a kitchen knife just before the incident Planned or December 16 5:50

In an incident where a man's body was found burnt in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, a man of a fire resident who was arrested on the 15th for suspicion of injury to a man purchased a kitchen knife the day before the fire I learned from interviews with investigators. The police are investigating the suspicion that the crime was planned in advance.

In the early morning of November 25th, the second floor of the apartment in Kashihara City burned, and the police came out on the 15th in the arson murder case where the body of Mr. Naoki Yamaoka (28) who lives in Sakurai City was found from the room of the fire. Arrested by Susumu Takeko (20), a resident of the fire room, on suspicion of injury.

There is a suspicion that Mr. Yamaoka was cut with a knife on the street near his home in Sakurai City at midnight on November 24, the day before the fire.

According to the investigators, they have admitted allegations of injury.

The police cut off Mr. Yamaoka and examined it by taking it to the apartment room in Kashihara city, but after the evening of the 24th just before the incident, suspected bamboo stock had purchased a kitchen knife at the home center in Kashihara city This was newly discovered through interviews with investigators.

On the morning of the same day, the suspected bamboo stock had been withdrawing 250,000 yen from his account, and the police suspected that the crime had been planned in advance. We are investigating relationships.