A JAPANESE businessman who owned a factory in Songgang Subdistrict, Bao’an District, killed his wife and their 2-year-old son before killing himself Saturday, Bao’an police said.
In the man’s will, he said the reason for his actions was being unable to bear acts of domestic violence committed by his Chinese wife, a 23-year-old native of Jiangsu Province.
The tragedy happened in an upscale residential building in Shajing Subdistrict.
The Japanese man’s elder brother, who lives in Hong Kong, arrived at Shajing on Saturday after he received a phone call from his younger brother, who claimed he would kill himself, as he couldn’t bear his life any longer.
The elder brother, upon arriving, asked security guards to force open the door to his brother’s 12th-floor apartment, where he found his unnamed brother, 39, hanging in the bathroom and his brother’s 2-year-old son dead in bed.
Wanfeng Police Station immediately launched an investigation after receiving a report.
Police tried to call the Japanese man’s wife, Gao, but her phone had been switched off. When police opened the refrigerator, they found Gao’s dismembered body.
According to residents in the neighborhood, Gao was unemployed and took care of the child at home.
Neighborhood residents said the man might have killed his wife Sept. 1 because they hadn’t seen the woman, who often walked outside with her son, since then. In the past few days, only the man had taken his son outside, according to witnesses.
The family moved to the apartment building in 2012 and had frequently quarreled over the past six months. Residents often saw the man with scratches on his face. A resident claimed the man had attempted to jump off the building during the Spring Festival this year, while Gao and his son stood crying beside the corridor’s fence. The man later went back to his apartment with Gao and his son. (Han Ximin)
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