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Police in Tokyo said Monday they have arrested a 49-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his 83-year-old mother to death with scissors at their home in Adachi Ward.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Kunitoshi Komatsu, is accused of stabbing his mother Keiko in the neck with a pair of scissors at their apartment at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Fuji TV reported that Komatsu called police afterward and said he had stabbed his mother. Keiko was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Komatsu was quoted by police as saying he was worried about his future and his ability to look after his ailing mother.
© Japan Today
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nath
My god... I think I am taken aback by the fact that I am reading this, and looking at the right column to see TWO MORE murder stories of similarly crazy nature.
Okinawamike
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Well, no more worrys, POS.
Disillusioned
49 years old and still lives/d with his mother? Cue the theme from Deliverance! - Now he doesn't have to worry about anything. He gets three meals a day and a room at the emperor's hotel.
Ewan Huzarmy
Komatsu was quoted by police as saying he was worried about his future and his ability to look after his ailing mother
Well perhaps you should have 'offed' yourself and let your poor mum get the insurance money......scumbag !
wontond
The shortsightedness of some people really astounds me.
SauloJpn
People should stop masking evil with a dumb a** excuse of their own financial shortcomings!! RIP poor woman who spent a good chunk of her adult life raising a man who could not face the prospect of returning the favor!
kolohe
There is nothing wrong with living with your parents. I know of several Japanese friends -- male and female -- all independent financially who moved back home to help take care of their elderly parents. They are not maladjusted or pathetic in anyway as some portray such people to be. For this person who killed his 83-year-old mother, that is a different matter. Don't paint those living with their parents with one broad stroke of the brush. There are those who love and cherish their parents, who take them on overseas trips and so on. Just sayin'.
Kimokekahuna Hawaii
It is actually a good thing to have elders live with children who will take care of them not abuse or murder them in what has become a rash of copycat killings.
Mirai Hayashi
good lord! and that was suppose to be the solution the problem? Ever heard of a nursing home?
Gloryjean Salvacion
Simple put in care center and pay, no need to do something bad.
Serrano
This is pathetic.
nath
Three hots and a cot for him. As in a previous article, he may not stay incarceration very long due to he fact that he killed a close kin who was up in age which is often a lenient sentence after repentance in Japan. I feel sadness for his departed mother who raised him and didn't deserve her fate.
BurakuminDes
What a terrifying and tragic way to go for this poor old lady, being stabbed to death by a selfish , work-shy, wastrel son. What a disappointment he was to her. Rest in peace.
Knox Harrington
Come on guys... The police said he said, blah, blah...
This guy was a nutter. No sane person could ever do this to any person just for the reasons stated. Living alone with his old mother speaks volumes of the mental level of this person and I believe he needs help.
Aristoman
Are you sure that people need to know of such sick act. It makes your country look bad.