TOKYO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday sought a life sentence for a 68-year-old man accused of fatally capturing a health care provider and attacking different medical employees final yr throughout an 11-hour standoff with police at his house close to Tokyo.
Prosecutors mentioned on the Saitama District Court that Hiroshi Watanabe, who was charged with killing 44-year-old Junichi Suzuki with a shotgun, had the “strong intention to murder as many as he could,” stressing that the accused fired at multiple individual.
According to the indictment, Watanabe fatally shot Suzuki, severely injured a physiotherapist in his 40s and hospitalized one other medical employee by spraying him with tear gasoline.
The defendant mentioned throughout his first listening to that he had “never intended at all” to homicide anybody, claiming as a substitute he had aimed on the physician’s proper knee however his shot went off track.
Watanabe had developed resentment and anger towards the physician, who had been accountable for offering house medical take care of his mom.
Prosecutors mentioned the incident created a damaging impression about house medical care and made medical employees really feel intimidated.
The assault happened on Jan. 27 final yr when three medical employees got here to Watanabe’s house in Saitama Prefecture for a home go to. The suspect took the employees hostage in an 11-hour standoff with police, and he was finally arrested after the police stormed the constructing.