Police in Tokyo on Saturday arrested an unemployed 42-year-old man of no fixed address on suspicion of killing a 61-year-old homeless man on a riverbank in Katsushika Ward.
Police in Tokyo on Saturday arrested an unemployed 42-year-old man of no fixed address on suspicion of killing a 61-year-old homeless man on a riverbank in Katsushika Ward.
According to police, the suspect, Sunao Kamiyama, struck Sachio Hatakeyama several times with a hammer on the head and back, while they were drinking together by the side of the Arakawa River at around 5:50 p.m. on Nov 15. Hatakeyama’s body was found on Friday morning after Kamiyama told a passerby “there was a man lying at the river’s edge.
