"I Killed My Mother": Daughter in Her 40s Reports Herself to Police; Police Make Emergency Arrest

Set to be charged with parricide
Police investigating motive and circumstances of the crime

A woman in her 40s who reported herself to police after killing her biological mother in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, has been arrested.

Gangseo Police Station in Seoul. Reporter Lee Jiye.

Gangseo Police Station in Seoul said on October 22 that it had urgently arrested a woman in her mid-40s on suspicion of murder.

According to police, the woman is suspected of killing her mother, who was in her late 60s, in the Ujangsan-dong area of Gangseo-gu at around 8 a.m. on October 22.

After the crime, the woman reportedly called police herself and said, "I killed my mother." Police received the report at around 8:15 a.m. that day, dispatched officers to the scene, and arrested her there at around 8:40 a.m.

The victim was initially reported to be the woman's stepmother, but a police investigation found that they were biological mother and daughter. Police plan to charge the woman with parricide.

Police are investigating the woman's precise motive and the circumstances of the case.

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