Three men were found dead in a residence in Shibushi, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Tuesday night.
Police said they received a call at around 8:35 p.m. from a man saying a knife-wielding man was at his residence, Sankei Shimbun reported. When police arrived at the scene, three men were found collapsed and covered in blood from stab wounds. They were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Police identified the men as residents Yoshihito Kai, 91, his son Kunio Kai, 67, and Kai’s son-in-law, Shun Suma, 45, from Kagoshima Prefecture.
Yoshihito’s wife, who is in her 80s, was also at home but was not injured. Police said she told them that Suma argued with her husband and son, then stabbed them and himself in the stomach.
© Japan Today
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snowymountainhell
Wow! A phone call to police during the incident, then a double-murder followed by a suicide by the alleged assailant, AND all, … with a witness present? Couldn’t have scripted a better case for the police!
snowymountainhell
… unless they also have a just happen to come upon some CCTV footage and/or the wife had it on video. -
Kyakusenbi_Arimasu
Yoshi was 91. How old was his wife? I doubt he was smart phone savvy to film it.
Btang
Suma argued with her husband and son, then stabbed them
jalan5
@xamurai
"Family feud gone wrong."
and their old age dont mean a thing.
William Bjornson
That poor woman, elderly and now completely alone with an equally traumatized daughter...how brutal life among us self-aggrandizing apes can be wherever we live. And to witness the homicidal insanity ending in harakiri...and what must I be to even be able to stand thinking of it even as the horror fills me...and the saddest part is that the TRUE VICTIMS, those who survive, must live with it until they die...the dead are, mercifully, beyond such sadness and despair. What to do?
Paul
What a nice mentally balanced family!
Lindsay
Another family mass-murder in Japan. I was shocked by these kinds of incidents when I first came to two decades ago. These days I hardly raise an eyebrow.