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A man broke into a house in Nagoya on Saturday morning, stabbed three people and then himself, police said.
According to police, the attack took place in a residential district in Mizuho Ward at about 9 a.m. TBS quoted police as saying that the suspect, identified as Yutaro Sugiura, 25, smashed a window in the house and entered, wielding a knife. He stabbed a 27-year-old woman, the woman's mother, 55, and her grandfather, 80. After that, he stabbed himself in the chest.
Police said none of the injuries are life-threatening and said they will arrest Sugiura after he has recovered from his injuries.
Police said that Sugiura, who is unemployed, and the woman used to have a relationship but had broken up, TBS reported. Police said the woman's parents had consulted them several times about Sugiura's stalking behavior.
© Japan Today
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kimuzukashiiiii
and what did the police do about it, I wonder?
(Its a rhetorical question... I know the answer is absolutely nothing.)
some14some
a private family affair, what to comment?
justbcuzisay
Didn't the past murder's of stalking victims lead to more updated laws so that police can do something BEFORE an attack happens?
Glad to hear that the injuries were not life threatening.
CrazyJoe
The guy stabbed in the wrong order. He should have stabbed himself first.
Cricky
I foresee another regrettable incident and lots of bows. This poor family asked for help and received....
DudeDeuce
Time for a vigilante police force to get started here.
Jack Stern
Knives the great enforcer in Japan. Lucky people are not walking around with a katana strapped to their waist anymore.
Frungy
Didn't they just pass new rules for the police requiring them to investigate stalking... ooops, looks like those went in the same "ignore" bin as all the existing anti-stalking legislation. Japan actually has a ton of it, it just never gets used.
You've obviously never used a katana before. The metal used is so awful that it is pretty much useless in the hands of anyone who doesn't know how to use it. Strike at the wrong angle and it shatters, strike the wrong place and it shatters, block in the wrong way and it shatters. Give me a stainless steel carving knife any day of the week. Better yet a halfway decent European longsword.
602miko
fixing a broken heart
nath
Another weird nutter.
Alphaape
3 people stabbed with a knife after some nut job broke into the home. So tell me anti-gun people, why is it that not being able to defend yourself with a gun is a good thing. Granted, the idiot who broke in could have had a gun if they were allowed in this country, but I would think that he may have thought twice if he would have believed that the people were able to defend himself with a gun vice not having a weapon to match. No guns allowed, and yet we still have violent crime.
inverse
Pro tip: READ THE ARTICLE.
No one died. No one died. Whether or not he would have "thought twice" about it or not, if guns were involved, they would be reporting the body count, not hospitalizations. Gun freaks sicken me.
Kris Allenation
If there's a place where you can not count on the police that place is Nagoya, maybe not all but most of those pigs here only sit inside the "kobans" doing nothing all day and the old ones especially who I have dealt with were the worst, they try to show they are "the authority" when they deal with innocent old people or fragile women however they fear the lowest yakuza member, that besides their lack of IQ and morality...