Grandmother murdered

South Korea is a country with a very low rate of street crime, with really no ghettoes or places you have to avoid — people generally don’t fear violence outside. This is a truly shocking crime in any country but even more so in Korea where there are few murders. I wonder if there will be a national outcry or political reaction.

The shockwave is growing over the revelation that the suspect in the death of a 60-year old grandmother discovered on the 25th is her own middle school-aged grandson who was living with her.

The grandmother, Ms. Choi (68), was found dead yesterday at about 1:50 pm in her home in Busanjin-gu, Buam-dong, in Busan. At the time of discovery her body was under the covers in bed, with one part burned, and one of the body’s hands had been mutilated.

One day after the very first day of the police investigation, today, the 26th, it was announced that the suspect caught was none other the middle school grandchild “A” (15).

The reason for the murder was that on the 23rd the boy was scolded after returning from having run away from home for a week.

The lead investigator in the Busanjin Police Station said, “Early in the morning, as the grandmother was scolding him for running away and attempted to strike him when he punched her and she fell down.”

“A” struck his fallen grandmother again several times in the head with a blunt object and finally shot her.

He immediately moved the shot body of grandmother Choi into the bathtub, and the police investigation revealed that in the daytime on the 25th he cut the body to pieces in order to hide it.

But as soon as he failed in that attempt, “A” tried again to cover up the crime by wrapping Choi’s body in a blanket and setting fire to it.

But a neighbor who saw the fire pulled the fire alarm and the body was discovered unburned, while “A” checked in to a goshiwon in Yeonje-gu and was caught by police today.

Though not caught because of this, but police have determined that he had come up with all these ideas from the games and movies he was exposed to.

There is growing shock over the fact that, even after shooting his grandmother, “A” found information on the internet about hiding his own body and generally acted with such daring.

It was revealed that “A” had been living with his grandmother on welfare since his father disappeared seven years ago and never sent word.

After police carry out an extra investigation on A they plan to apply for a warrant of arrest for parricide.