"Anyone Who Gets in the Way"…Teenager Wields Knife at Unknown Middle School Girl

A teenager who wielded a weapon at a female middle school student in Gangnam, Seoul during the Chuseok holiday is under police investigation.

According to the Seocho Police Station in Seoul on the 2nd, a boy identified as A is suspected of attempted murder for threatening a middle school girl, B, and brandishing a weapon before fleeing around 6:10 p.m. the previous day on a walking trail in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu.

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Previously, the minor A, who lived in Changwon, Gyeongnam, arrived in Seoul by express bus on the morning of the 1st. After getting off the express bus, A transferred to a city bus and got off near Yangjae-dong, the crime scene, then followed the victims.

Then, around 6:10 p.m., A threatened two female middle school students on a walking trail in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, brandished a weapon, and fled. During the incident, the resisting female student B injured her finger, but fortunately, there were no life-threatening injuries.

The victims immediately reported the crime to the police. There was no closed-circuit television (CCTV) at the crime scene, so the police first identified A’s physical description based on the victims’ statements. They then reviewed nearby CCTV footage to identify and track a person presumed to be A. At the time of arrest, three weapons and a hammer were found at the scene.

The police summoned A’s parents, who live together in Changwon, and questioned A in their presence. A, who had dropped out of school due to difficulties adapting to life, reportedly stated during the investigation that he came to Seoul with the intention of harming someone.

The police judged that A had the intent to kill and actually attempted to carry it out, applying the charge of attempted murder in the arrest warrant.

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