Killed Five Family Members Including Parents, Wife, and Children
No Answer to Question "Do You Feel Sorry?"
The man in his 50s who killed five members of his family, including his parents, wife, and children, has been handed over to the prosecution.
A man in his 50s, identified as A, who killed five family members including his parents and wife and children, is being transferred from the Yongin Eastern Police Station detention center to the prosecution on the 24th. Photo by Yonhap News
On the 24th, the Yongin Western Police Station in Gyeonggi Province transferred Mr. A, who had been arrested on charges of murder and parricide, to the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office.
During the process of getting into the vehicle, Mr. A nodded in response to reporters' questions asking if he admitted to premeditated crime. However, he did not answer questions such as "Did you have to kill your family?" or "Do you feel sorry?"
The prosecution, which received the case records on this day, plans to conduct a supplementary investigation before bringing Mr. A to trial. The indictment is expected to take place in early or mid next month.
A man in his 50s, identified as A, who killed five family members including his parents and wife and children, is being transferred from the Yongin Eastern Police Station detention center to the prosecution on the 24th. Photo by Yonhap News
Mr. A is accused of killing five family members?his parents in their 80s, his wife in her 50s, and two daughters in their teens and twenties?at his apartment home in Suji District, Yongin City, on the night of the 14th. He is reported to have committed the crime after making them fall asleep by giving them sleeping pills.
After the crime, Mr. A left a note stating his intention to "kill everyone and then kill myself," and fled in a passenger car to an officetel in Gwangju City, where he was staying for business purposes, in the early morning of the 15th. He was apprehended by police later that morning.
He told police, "While working on an apartment sales project, I was sued by buyers for 'fraudulent sales,' which left me with enormous debt and even facing a civil lawsuit. I could not leave the debt to my family."
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