"I Ignored It"...70-Year-Old Man Police Officer in 'Sungnyemun Underground Passage Murder' Faces Arrest Warrant Request

The police have requested an arrest warrant for a man who killed a cleaning worker with a weapon in an underground passage near Sungnyemun in Jung-gu, Seoul.

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On the 3rd, the Namdaemun Police Station in Seoul announced that they had applied for an arrest warrant for a man in his 70s, identified as Mr. A, on suspicion of murdering a sanitation worker who was cleaning in downtown Seoul at around 5:10 a.m. the previous day.

According to the police, Mr. A is suspected of stabbing and killing Ms. B, a woman in her 60s who was a sanitation worker affiliated with a service company in Jung-gu, with a weapon in the underground passage near Sungnyemun in Jung-gu at around 5:10 a.m. the previous day.

The National Forensic Service (NFS) conducted an autopsy on Ms. B’s body and provided a preliminary verbal opinion to the police, estimating the cause of death as multiple stab wounds.

Mr. A reportedly stated that he committed the crime because he felt disrespected during a conversation with Ms. B, who was an acquaintance.

Unemployed Mr. A was understood to have lived in a lodging house near the Dongja-dong shantytown in Yongsan-gu, alternating with a homeless lifestyle. After the crime, Mr. A left the scene but was urgently arrested around 8:50 a.m. on the day of the incident in an alley near the Dongja-dong shantytown.

The pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant hearing) for Mr. A is scheduled to be held as early as tomorrow.

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