Man suspected of burning 6 women to death sent to prosecutors

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kazuo Shinozawa (R), arrested on suspicion of burning six women to death at a jewelry shop in Tochigi Prefecture on June 11, is sent to prosecutors June 14. Shinozawa, 49, of Oyama in the same prefecture, is suspected of murdering the women by locking them up inside a shop of the Tsutsumi Jewelry Co. in Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, and setting the shop on fire.

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