Urgent Arrest of Man in His 30s for Threatening Message "Killing 20 Women at Sillim Station"

The reason for the crime is "because I wanted attention"

A man in his 30s who posted threatening messages online saying he would kill 20 women at Sillim Station in Seoul was arrested by the police.

On the 20th, the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency announced that they had urgently detained a man in his 30s, identified as A, on charges of intimidation.

A is suspected of posting a threatening message on the internet around 4:47 p.m. the previous day, stating, "I will kill 20 women at Sillim Station in Seoul." After receiving the report, the police tracked the Internet Protocol (IP) address and urgently arrested him at his residence in Gyeonggi Province that morning.

During the police investigation, A stated that his motive for the crime was "because I wanted to get attention." It is reported that A currently has no particular occupation.

Earlier, on the 11th, a man in his 20s, identified as B, was also arrested for posting a message online threatening to kill women at Sillim Station.

B (26) is accused of purchasing a 32.5 cm long weapon with the intent to kill women passing near Sillim Station on the 24th of last month and posting a message on an internet bulletin board stating, "On Wednesday, I will kill 20 women at Sillim Station." It is reported that B paid for the weapon but later canceled the order.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office’s special investigation team indicted B on the 11th on charges of attempted murder, intimidation, and violation of the Information and Communications Network Act. This is the first time prosecutors have applied attempted murder charges to a copycat crime warning posted online following the "Sillim-dong weapon rampage" case.

Meanwhile, according to the National Investigation Headquarters of the National Police Agency, as of 9 a.m. on the 11th, there have been 315 'murder threat' posts detected nationwide, and 119 authors (including 4 who posted multiple times) have been apprehended. Among the authors, many were minors; of the 65 suspects arrested by the 7th, 34 (52.3%) were minors.

The prosecution and police plan to conduct detention investigations of those who write murder threat posts that amplify public anxiety, considering the seriousness of the crime and the possibility of flight or evidence destruction. According to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, as of the 11th, 12 suspects nationwide have been detained on charges including writing murder threat posts.

Online murder threat posts began appearing after the weapon rampage incident at Sillim Station in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, on the 21st of last month, and surged following the weapon rampage at Seohyeon Station in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi Province, on the 3rd of this month.

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