A 28-year-old woman died after being?found bleeding heavily and lying unconscious in a parking lot in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, early Wednesday morning, and a man believed to have fled the scene later died in a car crash in neighboring Saitama Prefecture, police said.
A police officer discovered Chinatsu Yoshida, from Takasaki, in the parking lot after a nearby resident made an emergency call at around 3:15 a.m. She was taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead.
At around 4 a.m., a 34-year-old man from the town of Tamamura in Gunma Prefecture died after crashing a car into a utility pole in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, about 30 kilometers from the parking lot.
The car he was driving belonged to Yoshida. Police authorities in Gunma and Saitama are investigating the case as a murder and believe the man was involved.
The police said a bloodstained knife was found near Yoshida at the scene. The Gunma police also seized the man¡¯s car, which had been parked in the same parking lot.
Before the nearby resident contacted police, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department received an emergency call from a woman describing herself as Yoshida¡¯s acquaintance, saying Yoshida had gotten into trouble with a man she knew at the parking lot.
There are no records of Yoshida consulting police in Gunma or any other prefecture in the past.
The incident occurred in a residential area roughly 500 meters northwest of Takasaki Station.
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