A 17-year-old male high school student who was arrested in a case where a teacher was cut with a knife at a junior high school in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture on the 1st, made a statement to the effect that ``it escalated while watching a cruel video''. I found out what I was doing by interviewing investigators.
He also said that he was interested in indiscriminate murder, and the police are investigating the details of the incident.
A 17-year-old male high school student living in Urawa Ward, Saitama City, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for invading a junior high school classroom in Toda City on the 1st and injuring a 60-year-old male teacher who stopped him. it was done.
According to the police, the high school student admitted to the charges and stated that he was interested in indiscriminate murder, and also said that he had wanted to kill people for a long time.
And it was newly found in interviews with investigators that he made a statement to the effect that "gradually escalating while watching cruel videos" about how he came to think so.
Police are investigating further into the circumstances leading up to this incident.
High school students are also hinting at an incident in which dead cats were found one after another in the neighboring city of Saitama in February, so we are carefully investigating the relationship.