On the 1st, in Kawaguchi City and Yokohama City, Saitama Prefecture, three cases of slashing occurred in succession, and a person with similar characteristics to the man who cut a man in Kawaguchi City later traveled by train using a nearby station. It was found in an interview with investigators that it seems to be.
The Yokohama incident occurred an hour and a half after the Kawaguchi incident, and police are investigating three connections.
Around 6:20 pm on the 1st, a 61-year-old woman who was pushing a bicycle on the street in Suehiro, Kawaguchi City, was cut in the thigh with something like a knife, and five minutes later, about 400 meters south. A 45-year-old man had his thigh cut.
Among them, in the case where a man was injured, a man with a height of about 1.70 cm and wearing dark clothes was witnessed. I learned from interviews with investigators that it seems that they moved in.
About an hour and a half after the Kawaguchi incident, a 28-year-old man's thigh was cut near Hodogaya Station in Yokohama, about 40 kilometers away.
When the police analyzed the video of the security camera around the scene of the incident in Yokohama City, it was found that a man who is believed to be the suspect with something like a bag was shown in the interview with investigative officials. .
In a series of incidents, it is known that one of the victims in Kawaguchi City suffered a cut after hitting his thigh with something like a bag held by a man who passed by.
The police are analyzing the security cameras and are investigating the relationship between the three incidents, assuming that the same criminal may be involved due to similarities in methods and characteristics.