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82-year-old man killed in suspected robbery and murder in Tochigi

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An 82-year-old man was found dead in his home in Tochigi City on Thursday afternoon.

At around 3 p.m. on Thursday, police received an alert from a man telling them he and his father were assaulted by someone at their house and that his father was dead. When police arrived at the scene, they found Tokuji Oaku, 82, dead in his bedroom, bearing multiple bruises on his body. The house had been completely ransacked, police said.

Oaku’s 59-year-old son told police that the two, who had been living together, were attacked by someone unknown who had entered the house. Police believe the incident took place sometime between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.

The son had been temporarily knocked out after the assault and contacted police immediately after he regained consciousness, Sankei Shimbun reported.

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My says the son did it it's BS that somebody would break into your house in the middle of the day when two people are still at home

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It should it should say my money but my phone does whatever the hell it wants

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Cold world.

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Guarantee it's the son. Why would a home Invader beat an old man to death and then leave the other guy alive?

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Guarantee it's the son. Why would a home Invader beat an old man to death and then leave the other guy alive?

Did he knock himself out?

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My says the son did it it's BS that somebody would break into your house in the middle of the day when two people are still at home

This from the article.

"Police believe the incident took place sometime between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning."

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Was the son injured, any bruising on his body ?? Did he seem sincere when talking with the police ?? 

Was the father rich ?? Just some of the info not presented in the news article. But most likely the son had a hand in his fathers murder.

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Not sure why people are so quickly accusing the son?

Here's a scenario:

One or more persons see a quiet looking house late at night. It's looked quiet for a few days now... Let's rob it. After breaking in they come across the son, knock him out. Then find the old man... Where's the valuables old man? Knock him about a bit to see if he'll give anything up. But he's old, poor old sod. It was enough to kill him.

That's equally as hypothetical a conclusion as yours from the brief article. But let's be realistic for just a moment...

Story doesn't mention bruises on son... But it doesn't say there were none. Even the most incompetent police cadet would soon put 2 and 2 together if there were no injuries on the son and we would be reading a different story.

You honestly believe you can glean more facts and logical conclusions from 7 sentences than a police investigation?

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Here's a scenario father and son get into an argument because son is sitting on his ass and not helping and mooching off of the father. son goes off and Beats his father to death then makes up a Cock and Bull story about a home invasion

Of course he would have no reason to lie about being knocked out. I guess we should just take his word for it and let him walk free

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