Young man murders six relatives in Medan

Young man murders six relatives in Medan

JAKARTA (JP): A 17-year-old grounded from leaving the family
home over his erratic behavior bludgeoned his parents and four of
his siblings to death with a hammer in Medan, press reports said
Saturday.

M. Fahrizal Batubara allegedly killed his father Dr. Arsyad
Batubara, 60, mother Delfiraina Siregar, 47, elder brother
Ganhaled, 19, and elder sisters Fitrisna, 28, Vini Quita, 23, and
Vidi Tinti, 22, in the North Sumatran capital on Friday morning.

His family's youngest child, Fahrizal was reportedly
despondent after he was reprimanded by his parents and grounded.
Another sister was away from home when the murders occurred.

"The police were informed of the mass murder by two friends of
Fahrizal at 9:30 p.m. on Friday," chief of the Medan Police's
Unit of Detectives, Maj. H.M. Yunan, was quoted as saying by
Antara on Saturday.

Fahrizal reportedly telephoned the friends at about 5 p.m. on
Friday to tell them he was hosting a party. When they arrived,
the friends found three bodies in the living room.

Fahrizal asked them to help bury the bodies in a room in which
had dug up the floor. The friends fled after telling him to wash
his bloodied clothes first.

His girlfriend, Popy, told police that Fahrizal visited her at
about 9:30 p.m. on Friday and confessed to the killings.

The third-year student of private G.B. Yoshua High School was
arrested at 2 a.m. on Saturday.

Fahrizal told police investigators he killed his relatives by
striking them over the head with a hammer.

He recounted he killed Fitrisna first as she watched
television and then attacked Ganhaled, a medical student. He
killed his mother when she came out of the kitchen to check on
the commotion.

Fahrizal murdered his father when he returned from Moslem
Friday prayers at the mosque. Vini and Vidi were the last to die.
(imn)