On the 1st of this month, three consecutive slashing incidents occurred in Kawaguchi City and Yokohama City, Saitama Prefecture, and it was found that the company employee arrested in the Yokohama incident was suspected of being involved in the Kawaguchi incident. It is also planned to re-arrest him on suspicion of injury.
According to police, he has denied the allegations so far.
Hiroaki Morikawa, a 62-year-old company employee in Hodogaya Ward, was accused of cutting his thigh with a knife on a sidewalk near JR Hodogaya Station in Yokohama on the 1st of this month. has been arrested on suspicion of assault.
About an hour and a half before this incident, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 40s had their legs cut off on a street in Kawaguchi City, about 40 kilometers away, so police are investigating the connection. I was.
As a result, according to investigative sources, it was found that the suspect was suspected of being involved in an incident in Kawaguchi City in which a man in his 40s was slashed.
The police will re-arrest him on suspicion of injury on the 24th and will investigate the details.
According to investigative sources, the suspect has denied the allegations, saying, "After finishing work in Kawaguchi City, I got on the train and returned to Hodogaya, but I didn't bump into anyone." about it.