AICHI (TR) – A person who police suspect fatally stabbed his former girlfriend on a railway platform in Nagoya earlier this month texted his buddy earlier than taking a deadly leap in entrance of an oncoming prepare.
“I am sorry,” Takuya Minami wrote at 7:44 p.m. on April 8, stories CBC TV (April 11). “This is farewell.”
The message would show to be the conclusion of unhappy story seemingly fueled by out-of-control paranoia and jealousy.
Six minutes after the message was despatched, police obtained a report a few man who “leaped in front of a train” at Moto-Kasadera Station on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line in Minami Ward.
Police and hearth personnel arriving on the scene discovered Minami, 29, collapsed on a platform on the station with extreme accidents over his whole physique. He was later confirmed lifeless.
On the identical platform, authorities discovered his former girlfriend, 18-year-old Tsukine Kawamura, collapsed inside a ready space with a knife protruding from her chest. Kawamura, who had suffered three stab wounds to the chest, died at a hospital about two and a half hours later.
“I no longer have the will to live”
The aforementioned acquaintance additionally knew Kawamura, who was an workplace employee residing in Nakagawa Ward. According to the acquaintance, Minami and Kawamura broke up three days earlier than the incident.
Minami thought Kawamura was in a relationship with a male colleague. “If you can promise that you won’t cheat on me, I won’t say anything, and I’ll try not to use violence or anything like that,” Minami wrote to Kawamura across the time of the breakup.
The purpose for the separation was the “violence” alluded to by Minami, in response to the acquaintance. A neighbor of Minami tells TV Tokai (April 11), “At 3:00 a.m. [one time], I heard what sounded like a man screaming, and, in response, I heard aw what appeared to be a woman’s voice shouting, ‘Stop!’ So, I thought he might be the type with a temper.”
A way of paranoia appeared to devour Minami, inflicting him to need to management Kawamura whereas they had been collectively. In addition to putting in an app on her telephone that allowed him to observe her location, he additionally prohibited her seeing her feminine associates.
“My boyfriend restricted me from playing with my girlfriends,” she wrote on social media. “But I broke up with him, so let’s have a good time.”
Minami’s paranoia appeared to solely construct following the top of the connection. The aforementioned acquaintance estimates that Minami despatched about 1,000 messages over a two-day interval main as much as the incident. At one level, Minami wrote, “I no longer have the will to live.” He additionally talked about “betrayal” and a want “to kill.”
The day earlier than the incident, he wrote to the acquaintance, “I bought a knife for around 20,000 yen.”
“I don’t want you to look over here”
According to investigative sources, a witness noticed Kawamura and Minami within the ready room collectively simply earlier than the incident on April 8. “I don’t want you to look over here,” Minami instructed the witness.
About quarter-hour earlier than the invention of Kawamura collapsed within the room, police obtained a misery name from the neighborhood of Moto-Kasadera Station. The feminine caller solely sobbed earlier than hanging up. After that, she failed to choose up when police tried to return the decision.
When police arrived on the ready room, a jacket was overlaying Kawamura, apparently to hide the knife protruding from her physique. There had been indicators of defensive wounds, in response to police. In addition, a second knife was discovered on the scene.
In the time main as much as the incident, Kawamura sensed hassle, expressing her considerations on what’s believed to be her Twitter account.
“I’m happy and comfortable with my life now that we’ve broken up,” she wrote on the day of the incident, “and I really wish you wouldn’t stalk me near my office. Don’t you know how scared I am every day?”