The eldest son, two months old, who had been assaulted by his father and became unconscious on the 5th of this month, died on the 8th.
According to the investigators, the father who was arrested for the investigation stated, "I came to my head because I couldn't stop crying."
Hiroki Horie, a 24-year-old office worker in Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, seats his two-month-old eldest son, Riki, in a car parked in a drugstore parking lot in Daigo Town on the 5th of this month. He was arrested on suspicion of injury for causing serious head injuries such as hitting him.
According to the police, Riki was unconscious and died at a hospital in Mito City before dawn on the 8th.
According to an investigative official, his wife, who was with him, seems to have been assaulted while shopping at a drugstore after leaving the car, and stated to the investigation that he said, "I've come to my head because I can't stop crying." about it.
Police have decided to switch the charges to lethal injury and investigate the details.