Police in Tokyo said Saturday that a man in his 30s apparently killed his mother at her house and then jumped to his death from an apartment building.
According to police, a man called 110 at around 8:30 p.m. Friday and said he had killed his mother at her home in Shinagawa Ward, Kyodo News reported. Police rushed to the home and found the body of a woman in her 60s in the kitchen, bleeding from a knife wound to the neck. She was declared dead at the scene. A blood-stained knife was on the floor near the body.
A short time later, the body of the woman’s son, whom police believe called them, was found in the parking lot of an apartment building in Ota Ward. Police said he apparently jumped to his death from the building.
© Japan Today
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Steve
What’s up with all these whackos killing their parents thesedays?
shogun36
Enough of these losers, always hurting or killing someone before they go and kill themselves.
Just stop attacking the innocent, and just go out, alone. Do society a favor.
John Coffey
I’m Almost a week living here in Japan and I have to ask is this common here? I’ve been reading the news here and it seems this is like a daily thing, family members killing each other.
Laguna
Cease with the judging unless you know the details. My wife cared for her cancer-stricken father til he succumbed. This entailed sponge-washing under his testicles so as to prevent bedsores.
Support is needed, not judgement.
oyatoi
The ‘nothing to see here, move along’ crowd have their work cut out for them trying to convince you that it’s NOT and to emulate the blissful ignorance of the three wise monkeys In denying the undeniable.
Spitfire
@John Coffey,
Sadly it is very common over here.
I would hazard a guess and say intra-family murders probably make up over 50% of Japan's homicide rate.
Temyong
Family killings are such a common news these days. The loss of natural affection is one of the signs that we are definitely in the end of days.
2 Timothy 3:1-3 KJV
[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
smithinjapan
Laguna: "Cease with the judging unless you know the details. My wife cared for her cancer-stricken father til he succumbed. This entailed sponge-washing under his testicles so as to prevent bedsores."
Aren't you doing exactly the same? Who says he or his mom needed support at all? Or maybe he did... financial support, but mom wouldn't give it. As you said, we don't know. So, don't judge the posters, either. What we know is that a man killed his mother, who was not so old, in a land where family kill each other on a daily basis. People are allowed to post on that.