Suspect Held In Slaying Of Sakomoto Kin

ONEIDA, N.Y, Dec. 24. -- (UP) -- Joseph O'Toole, 65 years old, a part-time bartender, was held by police today on first-degree murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Kenneth Iyenaga, a Japanese.

Iyenaga was slain and his wife, Kei, and his mother, Mrs. Yuo Iyenaga, 78, were wounded yesterday at their home at Sylvan Beach. The two women were reported in critical condition.

Iyenaga, 42, had two children, and was the son of the late Toyo-Kichi Iyenaga, former commission of the Persia, Turkey and China. The elder Iyenaga, who also lectured on political science at Chicago and Columbia Universities, was drowned six years ago in Oneida Lake.

Mrs. Iyanaga, a Barnard College graduate, is the sister of James Y. Sakomoto, former publisher of The Seattle Japanese Courier.