On the night of the 28th, a police officer who was responding to a trouble report at a house in Sosa City, Chiba Prefecture, fired at a man who was attacking with a knife, and then the man died.
Police arrested the man on suspicion of obstructing the execution of public affairs after firing.
According to the police, at around 6:30 pm on the 28th, the police were notified that "the sound of the rice dryer in the neighborhood house is noisy" in Yoshizaki, Sosa City, Chiba Prefecture.
When two police officers in their 50s went to a house with a dryer and asked about the situation, a man who seemed to have reported appeared with a saw at the scene.
Then, one of the police officers fired at the sky because he attacked the corresponding police officer while swinging a saw, but the man did not stop moving, so he fired one shot at the man. about it.
The bullet hit the man's chest and belly and was taken to the hospital but died.
The man who died was believed to be a man in his 70s living near a house on the scene, and police arrested him on suspicion of obstructing public affairs after firing.
The Sosa Police Station said, "The use of the pistol was proper," confirming the identity of the man and investigating the situation at that time.