Police have arrested Nguyen Van Thien, 17-year-old who killed his classmate, a 13-year-old girl for not accepting his love proposal. The killing of the young girl happened in a Ho Chi Minh hotel. The boy was 2 weeks after he escaped the crime scene.
It took the joint effort of the Ho Chi Minh City police and Quanh Binh province to arrest the young boy. He is now being questioned for the act.
Thien in police custody, Photo courtesy, The police
Thien and his schoolmates were returning from a trip to Singapore, when they all decided to stay in a hotel in HCMC. When they were about to leave for their Quang Binh in July 22, Thien said he had lost his passport, and asked the girl to go with him, while he retrieve the passport.
Since the duo never showed up after they went upstairs, the teacher called the 2 students, but none answered, and the teacher went upstairs to see what is happening. When the teacher got upstairs, the door was locked inside, and Thien said he was in the toilet, but the girl had gone downstairs already.
The teacher then went downstairs, but did not find the girl.
The teacher and some other students asked the hotel employee to follow them and open the hotel room from outside, and when the door was opened, they found the girl and in the bathtub, unconscious and bleeding from the mouth.
While the everybody was trying to revive the girl, Thien escaped from the hotel, and unfortunately, the girl died the next day at the hospital.
Police and forensic reports that the girl was strangled to death, and also suspected he might hae raped her.
Thien friends later said that he had loved the girl, but she repeatedly turned him down.