SAITAMA (TR) – Saitama Prefectural Police arrested a 61-year-old man over the alleged deadly stabbing of a second man in Kawaguchi Metropolis final week, stories the Asahi Shimbun (Sep. 11).
At round 5:20 p.m. on September 10, Akio Ohno, of no identified occupation, referred to as police from a two-story residence constructing in Yanagimoto-cho. “I minimize a person’s neck with a knife,” he mentioned.
When police rushed to the scene, they discovered the second man, believed to be in his 50s or 60s, on the primary ground of the residence constructing, collapsed and bleeding from his neck. He was taken to a hospital, however was later confirmed lifeless.
“Slashing his neck”
Police later arrested Ono, who lives on the second ground of the constructing, on suspicion of tried homicide. A bloody kitchen knife was discovered inside his residence. “[I] tried to kill the [second] man by slashing his neck,” the suspect mentioned in admitting to the allegations.
The scene of the crime is in a residential space about 1.4 kilometers south of Higashi-Urawa Station on the JR Musashino Line.
Police later modified the cost towards Ono to homicide. They’re at the moment investigating the id of the deceased man and the circumstances that led to the incident.
