Suffocated with Hands and Feet Bound... First Autopsy Results of Jeju Middle School Student Released

On the afternoon of the 19th, Mr. A, a man in his 40s who was arrested by the police at Jeju Dongbu Police Station on suspicion of killing the teenage son of an acquaintance, is responding to questions from the press.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] The preliminary oral opinion from the forensic doctor revealed that the cause of death of a middle school student in Jeju, who was murdered by his mother’s former lover, was asphyxiation due to neck compression. The deceased student was found with his hands and feet bound.

The Jeju Eastern Police Station received the first autopsy results regarding the cause of death of A (16), who was found dead in the attic of a house in Jocheon-eup, Jeju City, from the forensic doctor on the 20th.

At around 3 p.m. that day, Kang Hyun-wook, a forensic doctor at Jeju National University who conducted the first autopsy on A, announced that the cause of death was likely asphyxiation due to neck compression. The police also concluded that A died from asphyxiation based on the murder tools found at the crime scene.

Earlier, the victim A was found dead around 10:51 p.m. on the 18th in the attic on the second floor of a house located in Jocheon-eup, Jeju City. A’s mother, who discovered the body, reported it to the police.

The police confirmed signs of homicide on A’s body and began identifying suspects. They found that two adult men had visited the house around 3 p.m. on the same day. One of them was B (48), who had been a former lover of the deceased A’s mother.

Based on analysis of nearby closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage, the police identified the suspects and arrested accomplice C (46) at a location in Jeju city around midnight the next day, just three hours after the incident was reported.

The main suspect B, who fled immediately after the crime, was also apprehended at a lodging facility in Jeju city.

When brought to the police station, B told reporters asking about the motive for the crime, "I will explain later," and said, "I am sorry (to the bereaved family)."

When asked if he admitted to the murder charge, he responded "Yes," acknowledging the crime.

On the day of the crime, B and others reportedly broke into the second floor through the house’s outer wall and committed the crime. Immediately after, they discarded gloves and other tools used in the murder at a nearby clean house and fled.

During police investigation, accomplice C reportedly denied the charges, stating that "I only went to the scene with B but did not commit the murder." However, the police believe that C participated in the crime by accompanying B to the scene and not actively preventing B’s actions.

The decision on whether to issue arrest warrants for these suspects is expected to be made by the afternoon of the 21st at the earliest.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.