A university student in Nagasaki City, who was arrested for murdering a 79-year-old woman in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, stated in an interview that he bought a weapon hammer in Hakata. understood.

Police are investigating more about their actions and motivations before and after the incident.

Koushi Yamaguchi (25), a fourth-year student at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, was suspected of murdering on the 10th of this month in the garden of a house in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, for beating Chitose Otsuka (79) with a blunt device. I was arrested on the 14th.



In response to the investigation so far, he said, "I moved from Nagasaki by JR to the day before the incident, stayed overnight in Hakata, and went to Tosu by taxi on the day." I bought a hammer from Hakata in Hakata. "



Since the backpack that Yamaguchi had when he self-confessed to the police contained a hammer, the police proceeded to appraise whether it was used in the case and further details the actions and motives before and after the case. Checking it up.