Yokohama man stabbed dead 29-year-old man arrested "stabbed to kill" 8:50 on July 20
At dawn on the 20th, a 29-year-old man was arrested on the suspicion of attempted murder in a room in a condominium in Yokohama City, accusing a man with a kitchen knife. The man was soon confirmed dead, and police are now investigating further details, including the relationship between the two, on suspicion of murder.
At around 1:45 am on the 20th, police informed us by residents nearby that "I could hear a scream" at an apartment in Horiguchi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama.
When the police rushed, a man spilled from his stomach in the first room on the first floor of the condominium, and he was taken to a hospital, but soon he was confirmed dead.
The police arrested Hiroki Yoshizawa, a 29-year-old office worker in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, who was on the scene, stabbed a man's belly with a kitchen knife, and arrested him on the spot on the suspicion of attempted murder.
In response to the police investigation, Yoshizawa admitted that the suspicion was made by stating, "There is no doubt that I stabbed him with the intention of killing him."
The police are urgently confirming the identity of the deceased man, and in the future, will investigate the details of the relationship between the two on suspicion of murder.