On February 1, police suspected that a 62-year-old office worker living in Yokohama was injured in a series of three slashing incidents in Kawaguchi and Yokohama, Saitama Prefecture, on suspicion of being involved in the Yokohama incident. was arrested in
According to interviews with people involved in the investigation, it was discovered that a security camera at JR Hodogaya Station near the scene of the incident captured what appeared to be a company employee just before the incident. It is possible that he traveled to Yokohama by train, and we are investigating the relationship with the incident in Kawaguchi.
He denies the allegations against the investigation.
Hiroaki Morikawa (62), a company employee living in Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama, was arrested three days ago, according to police, on the sidewalk near JR Hodogaya Station in Yokohama at around 8:00 pm on the 1st of this month. It is suspected that the injury was caused by cutting the thigh of a man in his 20s.
On the other hand, just before the incident, a security camera at Hodogaya Station captured a person who appeared to be a company employee, according to investigative sources.
The victim was hit and cut by a man coming from the direction of the station.
Also, about an hour and a half before this incident, in Kawaguchi City, about 40 kilometers away, there were two incidents in which a person walking passed each other and had his leg cut off. Interviews with investigative officials have revealed that a person with similar characteristics is believed to have traveled by train from a nearby station.
From the analysis of security camera footage in various places, the police suspect that the company employee may have traveled from Kawaguchi City to Yokohama City by train, and are investigating the relationship with the incident in Kawaguchi City.
The company employee denied the charges, saying, "I don't know because I didn't even cut it with a knife."
The Course and Similarities of the Three Incidents
The three slashing incidents occurred in quick succession in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture and Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama City, about 40 kilometers apart, in just an hour and a half.
Two incidents in Saitama Kawaguchi
The first and second incidents occurred around 6:20 pm and 6:25 pm on the 1st of this month.
Both are sidewalks on Route 122 in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture.
In the first incident, a 61-year-old woman who was pushing her bicycle had her left leg slashed as they passed each other.
She said the woman later found her clothes were cut and bleeding.
The second incident is only about 400 meters south of it.
A 45-year-old man was walking with his child when a bag-like object hit his thigh when he passed a man wearing dark clothes, and his jeans were cut, resulting in a 7 cm long cut.
The child was not injured.
The man who injured the man was walking south.
According to investigative sources, the person who resembled the man who cut the man is believed to have moved by train from a nearby station.
Yokohama incident
About an hour and a half later, at around 8:00 pm, a third slashing incident occurred in Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama City.
A man who was walking with a woman on the sidewalk of Route 1 near JR Hodogaya Station had his thigh cut.
He bumped into it and after walking for a while he noticed that his thigh was painful and bleeding.
The man was wearing a dark coat and carrying what looked like a bag, similar to what was witnessed in the second incident.
Police arrested a company employee in connection with this incident in Yokohama, but according to investigative sources, the figure of a person believed to be a company employee was captured on a security camera at Hodogaya Station just before the incident.
Police suspected that the company employee may have traveled by train from Kawaguchi City to Hodogaya Ward, Yokohama City, based on footage from security cameras in various places, and investigated the detailed trajectory and the relationship between the incidents in Yokohama City and Kawaguchi City. I'm here.