(Update) Chiba Boy Arrested for Alleged Murder of Elderly Woman
Chiba, May 12 (Jiji Press)--Police in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, arrested a 15-year-old junior high school boy in the city of Chiba, the prefecture's capital, on Monday on suspicion of murdering an 84-year-old woman.
At around 5:10 p.m. Sunday, police received an emergency call with information that an elderly woman was lying on a street in the city's Wakaba Ward. Police officers then rushed to the scene and found Yayoi Takahashi on the ground bleeding. She was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead.
Her body was discovered in a residential area about 300 meters north of Sakuragi Station on the Chiba Urban Monorail. There was a pool of blood, investigative sources said.
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