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Arrested 69-Year-Old Part-Time Job Clerk in Toyama City for Fatal Hit-and-Run Incident

August 27, 2023 (Sun) 21:45

On the 17th of this month, the police arrested a 69-year-old part-time job clerk in Toyama City who worked at a gas station in a hit-and-run case in which a 19-year-old male college student died in Toyama City on the 27th.

Tetsuya Yokoi (69), who works at a gas station in the city at a part-time job shop in Sunakoda, Fuchu-cho, Toyama City, was arrested.

According to the police, at around 11:00 pm on the 17th of this month, Yokoi was driving a mini passenger car in Hibiki no Mori, Toyama City, when he hit Shoko Yamada (19 years old at the time), a second-year university student in Kanazawa City, and died. There is a suspicion that he ran away even though he let him.

According to the police, on the afternoon of the 26th, they were contacted by a car dealer in Toyama City saying, “A car that appeared to have caused an accident entered.” confiscated.

On the morning of the following day, the owner of the car, Yokoi, was voluntarily interrogated. As a result, it was found that the traces of the accident on the car were caused by this accident, so it was highly likely that Yokoi was the culprit. Arrested.

Yokoi said, “I don’t want to say now” about whether he was involved in this hit incident.

2023-08-27 12:45:00
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