Yokohama man admits to killing ex-classmate over money

A Yokohama man admitted Saturday to killing a former school classmate earlier this week after having some money trouble with him, police said. Atsushi Yamaguchi, 20, was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the murdered body of Tomu Negishi, 20, which was found early Wednesday in a forest in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture.

Police said Yamaguchi told them he went out with Negishi in a car Tuesday night, killed him in the passenger seat using a kitchen knife around midnight and abandoned the body in a forest. Yamaguchi was arrested after calling the police Friday night to say he killed Negishi.