TOKYO, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Japanese police on Monday referred Tetsuya Yamagami, who has been indicted for the deadly capturing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to prosecutors for allegedly making a gun and damaging a constructing by test-firing it.
Yamagami, 42, is believed to have test-fired a weapon at a facility linked to the non secular group Unification Church within the western metropolis of Nara on July 7 final yr, a day earlier than the deadly capturing, along with making handguns and gunpowder with out authorization, based on the Nara prefectural police.
The newest expenses in opposition to the 42-year-old are anticipated to mark an finish to police investigations into the lethal capturing of Abe.
Yamagami, an ex-Maritime Self-Defense Force employee, was arrested on the spot on July 8 final yr after allegedly capturing Abe twice at shut vary with a hand-crafted gun whereas Abe, 67, was delivering a stump speech within the western metropolis of Nara forward of an higher home election.
In January, after months of psychiatric evaluations by prosecutors, Yamagami was indicted for homicide and violating the firearms management regulation.