Funeral services were held in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, on Friday for a 64-year-old woman who was stabbed to death Monday evening in her house, allegedly by a 17-year-old high school student. About 250 people gathered at a service hall in the city for the funeral of Kiyo Tsutsui.
Her 67-year-old husband, Hiroshi, who suffered minor injuries in a scuffle with the teenager, was too overwhelmed to make a speech. at the service.
Wearing a white bandage around his throat, where he was allegedly knifed by the suspect, a tearful Hiroshi Tsutsui took the microphone, but was unable to speak.
The suspect, a third-year student at a private high school in the prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing the woman after he turned himself in, police said.
He reportedly told investigators that he chose the Tsutsuis' house because the front door was ajar.
He also said he wanted to experience killing people and that he thought it would be wrong to kill young people because they have futures, police said.