TOKYO (TR) – On Thursday, Kotomi Sato hid her face from cameras within the backseat of a police car. The day earlier than, she was arrested after stabbing her boyfriend within the neck with scissors inside his luxurious condo in Nakano Ward. He later died at a hospital
In response to police, the pair started relationship earlier this yr. Fuji Information Community (Sep. 17) offers background on how the incident transpired.
The crime occurred inside a newly constructed luxurious tower condo constructing close to JR Nakano Station. The sufferer, aged in his 20s, was an authorized public accountant.
The incident was revealed after Sato referred to as emergency servicse simply earlier than 7:00 p.m. on Monday. She mentioned that she she had stabbed her boyfriend within the neck with the scissors.
Emergency personnel arriving on the scene discovered the person collapsed and bleeding from his neck contained in the residence. He was later confirmed useless at a hospital, police mentioned.
“Hood over her head”
Upon her arrest on suspicion of tried homicide, Sato partially denied the allegations. “There was an argument happening between us on the prepare and it continued after we obtained to the condo,” she mentioned. “I believed he would pay attention if I took out the scissors. So, I swung them at him and stabbed him.”
Police later modified the fees to homicide.
A person who witnessed the scene outdoors the constructing mentioned, “The lady was surrounded by 4 or 5 law enforcement officials and had put a hood over her head. She didn’t battle again. They only put her in a police automobile and took her away.”
The sufferer was taken to an ambulance. “The paramedics had been administering cardiac therapeutic massage to him contained in the ambulance,” the aforementioned man mentioned.
“We frequently fought over small issues”
In response to investigators, Sato and the sufferer obtained into the aforementioned argument contained in the prepare for some motive earlier than the incident. After they returned to the condo, the argument didn’t die down and escalated right into a scuffle.
It’s believed that Sato then took a pair of scissors from a drawer within the TV rack within the sufferer’s condo and stabbed him within the neck. The homicide weapon had blades measuring as much as 20 centimeters in size, police mentioned.
The pair started in March 2024 after the sufferer confessed his emotions for her.
Sato advised police, “We frequently fought over small issues. Typically I’d slap or hit him.”
The rationale for the argument has not but been made clear.
