On the 7th, a 25-year-old office worker who was arrested in an incident in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, where a taxi driver was assaulted and left unconscious was in the taxi in Kanagawa Prefecture, investigators said. I found this out through an interview with.
Police believe that there was a trigger that led to the incident inside the car and are conducting a detailed investigation.
According to police investigation, suspect Ayato Funayama (25), a company employee from Tateyama City, pulled a male taxi driver out of his car in a parking lot in the city at around 6:30 a.m. on the 7th and assaulted him. , was arrested on suspicion of robbery and bodily harm for stealing a taxi, and was sent to the public prosecutor's office on the 9th.
The driver is being treated at a hospital, where he remains unconscious and in critical condition.
According to the police, the taxi was found on the road about 3 kilometers away from the parking lot where the driver had collapsed, with an unpaid fare of approximately 40,000 yen. Interviews with investigators revealed that the vehicle had gotten on the train within the prefecture and was headed for Tateyama City.
Upon investigation, the suspect made statements such as, ``I was drunk.There is no doubt that I robbed the taxi.''The police believe that there was a trigger that led to the incident inside the car, and they are conducting a detailed investigation.