A man fell to his death from the 14th floor of an apartment building in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, hitting a woman pedestrian below, on Thursday morning. Police said they received a call from a witness who saw the man fall at around 8:40 a.m. When they arrived on the scene, the man was already dead, while the 56-year-old woman suffered a fracture to her left shoulder.
Police said the man, who has not yet been identified, was in his 40s, and they are trying to determine if he committed suicide or fell accidentally. No suicide note was found, they said.
© News reports
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PitoPuccho
Poor woman - and possibly man if it wasn't suicide of course. Must've been quite a shock casualy walking along to have a man fall from the sky and land on your shoulder!
Jbizzle
Feel sorry for the lady. She's extremly lucky she didn't get her neck broken. Of course this guy jumped. I always find myself looking up when walking around the metropolitan Tokyo area.
regev
Its raining man
Cicada
How did they know he fell from the 14th floor?
Why have they ruled out homicide?
tokyochris
Perhaps someone saw him? Or the balcony is damaged?
No evidence to support it I guess?
Beelzebub
Pretty soon we'll need to wear helmets if we want to walk adjacent to high buildings.
franz75
Cicada: because Japan is crime free.
betterdays
Helmets unfortunately dont protect the neck unless u wanna protect yoself from a light falling object
smithinjapan
Wow... I will say only that the woman is lucky she didn't die buy this guy and only suffered a fracture.
efftta
Um.....from the article:
"....a witness who saw the man fall"
gogogo
Suicide is a selfish act and hurt someone in the process is even worse.
Triple888
Now I know why 4 is a bad number to have in a building.
ca1ic0cat
Look before you leap?
Hope the poor woman heals up quickly.
tuneintokyo
A guy killed someone in Ikebukuro jumping to his death a couple years ago. Horrible to kill someone while checking yourself out early.
hanadecaka
If depression comes nobody can stop like this accident,society must be more open and enjoyable smiling faces when walk in the street.People must be more freindly each other.
Betting
She was incredibly lucky. A few centimetres to the wrong side and she might have ended up dead too!
Andrew Decena
It's raining men.
usaexpat
That sucks for the woman who got hit. Just minding her business and someone trying to pwn themselves lands on her.
BurakuminDes
I shouldn't laugh...but that's GOLD!
Triumvere
Well, that will give you nightmares...
DentShop
Sakai represent. My hood making the headlines.
He didnt know the Olympic long jump is measured horizontally not vertically.
Fadamor
OK, full conspiracy theory mode: ON...
The guy was dragged to the roof and tossed off just as the woman was walking by to kill HER. Then the guy calls the police as the "witness" to make it not look like a murder. He gets back to the ground level and is dismayed to discover she is not dead, but only injured.
(I have GOT to stop watching CSI!)
jason6
Fadamor: stop hitting the crack. do u know how difficult it is to hit even a slowly moving object with a dropped one from 14 floors up? wind, distance, inexperience, the weight of a body.. nevermind
GJDailleult
In the Ikebukuro case it was actually a woman who jumped and killed a male pedestrian. Took of her shoes and placed them neatly too, but didn't bother to take the time to think about the people walking below. Anyways, very lucky woman in this case if she only fractured her shoulder.
Manuel D. Valencia III
Man! I'm only about 10 minutes from the building. Unfortunately, I was at work at the time. Would have been interesting to see that.
Manuel D. Valencia III
It also seem pretty bad that I'm almost use to hearing about people topping themselves here. I didn't hear too much of it in the U.S. or Australia.
ka_chan
I thought Japan was a polite society? What happened to look before you leap? Or, maybe it would have been considered rude for him to say,"doitte, doitte, doitte..." Sorry...
Unlike the old days, you don't think of others when you kill yourself today. But then why does the police consider this an accident or suicide and not consider homocide or attempted-murder suicide?
SiouxGirl
Oh, how awful. Poor woman. I'd be traumatized. What's even worse is when people see the jumper and enourage him or her to jump. That happened when I used to live in Seattle. Terrible!