At the Central Location Tracking Control Center, a police official explains electronic ankle monitors. Kyunghyang Shinmun file photo

A man in his 40s wearing a location-tracking electronic device (ankle monitor) fatally stabbed a woman he had been dating in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, fled, and was later apprehended.

According to police and others on the 14th, around 9 a.m. that day a report was filed that a woman in her 20s, Ms. B, had been stabbed on a street in Onam-eup, Namyangju. Responding officers and paramedics found Ms. B in cardiac arrest at the scene and transported her to a hospital, but she died.

The suspect, a man in his 40s identified as Mr. A, approached Ms. B using a vehicle and is said to have stabbed her multiple times with a bladed weapon before fleeing. Ms. B had been under protective measures, Mr. A was wearing an ankle monitor, and the two were reportedly in a dating relationship.

After the crime, Mr. A damaged his ankle monitor and fled, and at about 10:08 a.m. that day he was arrested by police in Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province.

Police transferred Mr. A to the Namyangju Northern Police Station to investigate the precise motive and circumstances, and plan to seek an arrest warrant.