(Update) 2 Women Found Bleeding at Saitama Elderly Care Facility Die, Former Employee Arrested

From Jiji

October 15 2025

SAITAMA – Two female residents of an elderly care facility in Tsurugashima in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, were confirmed dead Wednesday morning, hours after they were found bleeding and unconscious there. 
   At around 4:55 a.m., an emergency call from the facility reported the two women lying injured. They were taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
   Investigating the case as a possible murder, the Saitama prefectural police department apprehended Toya Kimura, 22, a former employee of the facility, on Wednesday morning. Kimura said that he committed the murders, according to the police. He was arrested on suspicion of murdering Toshiko Kobayashi, 89, at the facility at around 2 a.m. on the same day by stabbing her with what appeared to be a knife.
   The man was detained shortly before 9 a.m. the same day on a street about 250 meters from the facility. Security camera footage from the facility captured a suspicious person leaving the area, prompting the police to search for the individual.
   Kimura quit his job at the facility in July last year.