A company employee in Saitama City, who was arrested for assisting the suicide of a junior high school girl in Yokohama City who hinted at suicidal thoughts on social media, responded to a police investigation, saying, "I've been looking for a girl with suicidal thoughts on social media for some time." Interviews with investigative officials revealed that he had stated that.
Last month, in a case where a junior high school girl living in Yokohama went missing and her body was found in a river in the mountains of Sagamihara, a company in Midori Ward, Saitama City, was suspected of helping the student by driving to the scene and helping her commit suicide. Suspect Yuya Nozaki (28) was arrested by the police on the 17th.
According to investigative sources, he admits to the charges that he took the student by car and dropped him off.
According to investigative sources, it is believed that the suspect personally contacted the student after seeing a student's post on SNS that hinted at suicidal thoughts.
In addition, it was newly found by interviews with investigators that he had stated that he had been looking for a girl with suicidal thoughts on SNS for a long time in response to the investigation.
As a result of analyzing the smartphone, the suspect had multiple accounts on SNS, so the police will further investigate by analyzing the posting history on SNS in detail.