Police suspected a 62-year-old office worker living in Yokohama on suspicion of being involved in the Yokohama incident, one of the three consecutive slashing incidents in Kawaguchi City and Yokohama City, Saitama Prefecture on the 1st of this month. Arrested.
He denies the allegations against the investigation.
Hiroaki Morikawa (62), a company employee living in Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama, was arrested.
The suspect is suspected of having injured the thigh of a man in his 20s with something like a knife on the sidewalk near JR Hodogaya Station in Yokohama City around 8:00 pm on February 1. increase.
As a result of the investigation, such as analyzing the video of the security camera near the scene, the police found that there was a suspicion of being involved.
In response to the investigation, he denied the charges, saying, "I don't know because I didn't cut it with a knife."
Police are investigating the details of the incident.
About an hour and a half before the Yokohama incident, there were two cases in which a person walking in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, about 40 kilometers away, had his legs cut off as they passed each other. We are also investigating.