Kanagawa prefectural police rearrested a 24-year-old Vietnamese man on suspicion of murder on Thursday, alleging he stabbed a fellow Vietnamese national to death in a Yokohama apartment during a drunken argument in September, the Asahi Shimbun reported.
The suspect, who is of no fixed address and unemployed, denies the allegation. According to the prefectural police, he told investigators, "I did not kill anyone."
The international investigation division said the suspect is accused of stabbing the 30-year-old man in the left side of his abdomen and killing him in a ground-floor room of a residential building in Wada 1-chome, Hodogaya Ward, at around 5 p.m. on September 27. The man was taken to hospital in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest and was confirmed dead shortly afterward. He bled to death.
According to the division, several acquaintances had gathered in the room where the suspect lived to drink alcohol. The suspect, who was drunk, and the man began to argue. The suspect fled after the incident.
Police found him on a street in Fukushima Prefecture on October 3 and arrested him on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control Act by overstaying his visa.
Neighbors heard shouting
A woman who lives in the same building said foreign men had been living together in the room for about two years and were always lively. On the day of the incident, she said, they became noisy in the afternoon while it was still light, and she assumed they were holding a party.
About one to two hours later, she said, a loud scream came from the room.
“わーっ”a woman living in the same building, resident