A female employee at a ramen shop in Higashijiriike-cho, Nagata-ku, Kobe City, reported to the fire department that the owner was bleeding. The man had a wound on his head that looked like he had been shot with a handgun, so police are investigating the details of the situation, believing that it may be a murder.
The site is an area lined with houses and business offices about 100 meters east of Karamo Station on the Kobe Municipal Subway Kaigan Line.