The police on Saturday turned over to prosecutors the 63-year-old man suspected of murdering five people and torching two homes in a remote mountain community in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Kosei Homi was caught five days after the bodies of a woman and a couple, all in their 70s, were found in their fire-gutted houses in a hamlet under the administration of the city of Shunan. The bodies of two other seniors were discovered in their intact homes the next morning.
When Homi was delivered to the prosecutors, revealing himself in front of the media, he did not look up and had scratches on his face apparently made while he was in a mountainous area. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and beige trousers.