A 61-year-old man living in a house in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, was found dead on the 8th by bleeding blood from his head, and police said he had struck him to death. A woman of American nationality was arrested on suspicion of lethal injury.
After noon on the 8th, a man was found dead with blood bleeding from his head in a house in Tokorono, Nikko.
According to police, the man may have been involved in the incident because he was a 77-year-old female acquaintance in his 80s who lived in the house and had a scar on his body. I was investigating.
As a result, the woman's daughter, Joyce Masako (61), an American national who lives with her, was suspected of having struck Marumoto and hit her head to death, and was killed on the 9th. I was arrested on suspicion.
Joyce initially told police that he had found a man lying down when he went down from the second floor to the first floor of the house, and he himself reported to the fire department, but it depends on investigators. After that, he admitted that he had violently attacked Mr. Marumoto.
The police have decided to investigate the details of the situation, assuming that there was a problem between the two.