Police on Saturday arrested two teenagers in connection with the beating death of a 15-year-old boy in a local cemetery.
The two, a 15-year-old dropout and 17-year-old high school student, turned themselves in separately at the same police station and were arrested on suspicion of killing Hikaru Uechi.
Police had earlier obtained arrest warrants and were searching for the two boys, both said to be friends of the victim. Their names are being withheld because they are minors.
The 15-year-old suspect said he gave himself up because he believed he would eventually be caught anyway, according to police sources. They said he told investigators he had done a terrible thing to Uechi.