Gifu Prefectural Police arrested a 37-year-old man Thursday for allegedly stabbing his 89-year-old grandmother to death in the city of Ogaki in the prefecture.
Authorities received an emergency call around 8:30 a.m. on the same day from a nearby resident reporting that the elderly woman had been stabbed in the chest.
Police found the victim, Hayako Miwa, bleeding in the kitchen of her house with two stab wounds on her chest. A blood-stained knife was discovered nearby. She was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The attack is believed to have occurred at around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
After the incident, the suspect, Naoya Miwa, who lived in a separate building on the same development, fled the scene by car. He was apprehended in the city of Yokkaichi, in neighboring Mie Prefecture, at around 9:30 a.m. that day and was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police said Miwa, who is unemployed, confessed to the crime, saying, "There’s no doubt I stabbed her with a knife."