TOKYO, Japan - A former employee of an old age home in Kawasaki in southwest Tokyo, admitted to killing three elderly residents by throwing them over the balcony while he was working at the center.
Hayato Imai, 23, was arrested Monday for throwing Tamio Ushizawa from the fourth floor "to kill him."
After his arrest, he confessed to the killing of two other elderly women, Kyodo news agency reported Tuesday.
The death of Ushizawa, 87, took place on Nov. 4, 2014, while those of the two other, aged 86 and 96 years (also thrown from a balcony of the same building), followed on Dec. 9 and Dec. 31 of that same year, respectively.
According to police investigation, Imai was in the center when the three deaths occurred and denied any involvement in the incidents till he was arrested.
Although initially the police had not associated the deaths with any criminal act, the death of the third victim had raised suspicions.
Japanese authorities began to investigate Imai in May last year, when he was detained on suspicions for having stolen $218 in cash from the room of a septuagenarian lady five months earlier, an incident over which he was fired from the facility.
An inspection carried out by local authorities had also revealed abuses against residents of the center.
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