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A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a middle school classmate for a year and causing her death.

Today (1rd), the Incheon Gyeyang Police Station announced that it has detained Mr. A (23), who is suspected of assault and manslaughter, innocent, racketeering, and special suspicion.

Mr. A is accused of strangling Mr. B, a junior high school classmate, at a steam room in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province, on August 19 last year, causing him to become brain dead and then fleeing.

Subsequently, Mr. B died on September 8 of the same year due to hypoxic brain injury caused by external forces.

Mr. A's crime came to light last year when he assaulted Mr. B at a motel in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, and then falsely reported to 31 that "a friend was beaten by his father" in order to hide it.

At that time, Mr. A coerced Mr. B to make a false statement that he had been "beaten by his father," and later Mr. A's alleged crimes came to light when the police investigated Mr. B's father in a domestic violence case.

The police investigation revealed that Mr. B had not returned home at the time of the assault report, and in the process of locating Mr. B, it was confirmed that Mr. B had died.

The case of Mr. B's death, which was previously handled as a "criminal case" by the resident police station, was transferred to the Incheon Gyeyang Police Station, and the investigation was carried out with the cooperation of these police stations.

The police obtained CCTV footage of Mr. A and Mr. B going to a steam room in Sangju together, and found that Mr. A had committed abusive acts such as burning Mr. B's hair for about a year from September 9 and had stolen millions of won.

Mr. A, who was questioned by the police eight months after the crime, reportedly admitted to the charges of injury and assault, stating that he had assaulted for no apparent reason, but denied the charges of racketeering, special injury, and assault manslaughter.

A police official said, "Based on the investigation and circumstantial evidence, we have proven Mr. A's false statements and detained him," and said, "We will make efforts to ensure that Mr. A receives a proper punishment for the crime."