A suspect in the murder of a 55-year-old Michigan woman self-immolated Saturday as police tried to arrest him, FOX2 reports.
According to reports, police found Jung Park Kim stabbed to death inside his home on March 23 after a colleague reported that he had been absent from work for several days. fox 2. Police said that after Park Kim’s husband died last fall, her colleague Son Ho-jin, 59, made romantic and sexual advances to Park Kim many times. , reported that he is suspected of stabbing Park Kim to death. (Related: Police arrest suspect after soldier found stabbed to death in burning car)
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According to the paper, the victim’s friend Angela Hasse said that every time Park Kim rejected Jin, his advances became more aggressive.
“He’s a psychopath and he needs help. There’s something wrong with him,” Hasse said of Jin, who Park Kim hired as the restaurant’s head chef, FOX2 reported. .
“She is an amazing person,” Park Kim’s friend said through tears. She said, “She took care of her employees, she gave them a place to live if they didn’t have a place to live. … That’s just the kind of person she is, she had that kind of heart. ”
According to the paper, Park Kim gave Jin a car and a room in an apartment complex.
But Hasse said her friend became increasingly uncomfortable with Jin’s behavior after her husband’s death, FOX 2 reported.
“She didn’t like being alone around him,” Hasse said.
The motive for Park Kim’s murder is unknown, but Jin is suspected of stabbing her to death before fleeing the scene and heading south to Ohio, FOX2 reported.
After Ohio State Police spotted Ginn and the victim’s car in Akron, Ginn led authorities on a brief chase, but the suspect got out of the car and brandished a knife before returning to the car and attempting to escape. FOX2 reported that he committed suicide by self-immolation.
Jin then jumped from the burning car before police could extinguish the fire, the newspaper said.
Jin is currently in police custody at an Ohio hospital in critical condition with burns to his face and body, FOX2 reported.
