Police on the 18th sought an arrest warrant for a former first officer in his 50s, a person surnamed Kim, who fled after killing an airline captain and was then apprehended.

Suspect A, in his 50s, accused of fatally stabbing an airline captain at an apartment in Busan, is escorted to the Busanjin Police Station on the afternoon of the 17th. /Courtesy of News1

The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency applied for an arrest warrant for Kim on murder charges that afternoon.

Kim is accused of stabbing to death Captain A, a colleague at an airline, with a weapon at about 5:30 a.m. on the 17th at an apartment in Busanjin District, Busan.

Immediately after killing A, Kim went to the residence of C, another former colleague, in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, to carry out an additional crime but failed.

The day before killing A, on the 16th, Kim also attacked Captain B, another work colleague, in Ilsanseo District, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, and tried to strangle B to death but failed and fled.

Kim then fled to Ulsan but was caught by police at about 8 p.m. on the 17th, 14 hours after the crime.

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