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Man arrested for beating 78-year-old father to death with hammer

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Police in Kyoto on Monday arrested a 50-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of killing his 78-year-old father by hitting him on the head with a hammer.

According to police, Hiroyasu Wada has admitted to the charge, Kyodo New reported. Police quoted Wada as saying he attacked his father Ryoichiro after they had an argument at around 5 p.m. on Sunday.

At around 9 p.m., Wada called 119 and said he had hit his father with a hammer. The victim was taken hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police said Wada and his father lived alone.

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Hammering home his family love.What a jerk.

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Another irredeemable ingrate. Yesterday was a son beating & choking his mother to death with his bare hands. Dad here probably provided everything for the ungrateful for first 20 years, to be beaten with a hammer by his own son.

Let’s see if a real justice for his admitted crime will prevail and what appropriate fate will be brought upon him? Anticipating there will be an appropriate followup story here with his trial & sentencing.

- “Hiroyasu Wada has admitted to the charge. Police quoted Wada saying he attacked his father Ryoichiro after they had an argument at around 5pm Sun.” -

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Another day, another one. Yet the jgov chooses to ignore this cultural trait.

-11 ( +7 / -18 )

Without further details we may assume that this patricidal primate with a hammer had severe mental issues, like, "they know not what they do".

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snowymountainhellToday  08:02 am JST

Anticipating there will be an appropriate followup story here with his trial & sentencing.

So funny.

R.I.P.

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As I read the headline, I said ''unemployed'' to myself.

-1 ( +2 / -3 )

We read about these family people killing their parents almost daily here the only thing that changes recently is the names! Save the title for next week or maybe tomorrow because this will be a reprint and not an error!

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Latest version of the same recurring news story. Unemployed man kills family member in gruesome outburst. When dysfunctional pops. Wonder how much of a common story this is in other countries. Can’t remember many cases in mine, but wonder what conditions make this such a regular occurrence. You almost skip over them because they are so common here. Any psychologist reader with an angle?

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Same old story every week or so, psychotic, sociopathic people that never reached adulthood turn their frustration on anybody that has authority over them. Just let him rot in the shade for life and let the rest of the people forget he exist.

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