Man In Malang Kills Man Whose Body Found In River, Perpetrator Is Jealous Because Of Deviant Romance

MALANG - Malang City Resort Police has revealed a case of finding a corpse with the initials HS (30), on the banks of the Bango River, Blimbing, Malang, East Java. HS is confirmed to be a murder victim.

Malang City Police Chief Kombes Bhudi Hermanto said his party had named a male suspect with the initials MDH (44), a resident of Purwakarta, West Java, who was a colleague of the victim. So it was investigated by investigators and eventually led to someone we suspect of committing murder," he said, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, June 7. Police efforts to investigate the discovery of a man's body on the bank of the Bango River on February 10, 2022, finally paid off and arrested the suspect on June 4, 2022. According to him, the police also confiscated a number of pieces of evidence leading to the crime of murder. One of the items of evidence is a red Yamaha Mio motorbike with number N 5563 BB belonging to the victim. Meanwhile, Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Malang City Police, AKP Bayu Febriyanto Prayoga, said that the motive for the murder carried out by the suspect was hurt and jealousy towards the victim and the desire to own the motorbike.

The relationship between the victim and the perpetrator is a friend, where usually the perpetrator buys goods sold by the victim. A number of items that are usually purchased from the victim include cell phones and clothes. days before the body was found. At that time, the victim, who was drunk, was then carried by the perpetrator using the victim's motorbike to the riverbank. and then directed to the river bank. The victim at that time was unconscious or drunk, "he said.