On the 7th, a 43-year-old suspect who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in a case where two junior high school girls were cut with a knife on the streets of Taihaku-ku, Sendai, chased another after cutting one. According to an interview with the police, it seems that he had cut it.
Police arrested two junior high school girls on the streets of Otoyamachi, Taihaku-ku, Sendai City on the suspicion of attempted murder on the 7th at about 8 am when they were severely injured by being cut with a knife. Hiroyuki Owari (43), an unemployed person living nearby, was sent to the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office on the 8th.
According to the police investigation so far, the suspect said, "I wanted to kill anyone and go to jail. I cut his back many times with a knife I took out of my house."
Subsequent police interviews revealed that the suspect had slashed a seriously injured student and then chased another.
According to police, one seriously injured student was found to have one wound, and the chased student had multiple wounds on his back, so police are investigating the details.