Kawasaki child killing case No suspects suspected suicide Yokohama District Prosecutor November 8 18:57
In May, 20 elementary school students waiting for a school bus in Kawasaki City were killed, and the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor's Office charged no charges against a 51-year-old man who was sent a document for murder. Did. The man committed suicide on the spot immediately after the incident.
In May, elementary school students and their parents who were waiting for the school bus on the street in Tama Ward, Kawasaki City were stabbed one after another with a knife, and a sixth grade elementary school girl and a 39-year-old male from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs died. In addition, a 45-year-old woman and 17 children were seriously injured.
In this incident, Suichi Iwasaki (51) in Aso-ku, Kawasaki City, who committed suicide immediately after the incident, was sent a document in September for alleged murder and attempted murder, but the Yokohama District Prosecutor's Office died. Therefore, I was not charged on the 8th.
According to police investigation, Iwasaki suspected that he had prepared a weapon in advance and visited the site four days and six days before the incident. However, it was not possible to elucidate the motivation for this.
School side "Motivation is unclear and unfortunate"
The school corporation Caritas Gakuen, which operates the elementary school where the affected children attend, said, “When I thought of the person who died and still suffering from the sequelae of the incident, all the judicial procedures were completed without elucidating the motives. "I'm sorry."