TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police final month arrested a 40-year-old man over the alleged deadly stabbing of an aged lady was stabbed on the sufferer’s residence in Machida City.
At round 7:10 p.m. on September 30, officers rushed to the scene after the daughter of Chizuko Akie made an emergency name to police a few stabbing.
Akie had been stabbed a number of occasions within the abdomen and different components of her physique. She died shortly after being transported to a hospital, police stated.
Officers later arrested Kota Kuwano, a resident of Machida, after location him the scene of the crime. “I looked for someone who would be easy to attack,” he stated in commenting on allegations of tried homicide.
Akie and Kuwano weren’t acquainted previous to the incident.
“Why did it have to be my mother?”
The following day, the daughter of the sufferer gave an interview with Jiji Press (Oct. 2). Looking again on the horrific scene on the time, she shared her heartbreaking ideas.
That night time, the daughter was within the residence when she heard voices calling out, “Help!” and “Call the police!” When she ran out, she noticed her mom mendacity on the bottom and a person brandishing a knife. Her mom was bleeding profusely.
“I’m going to be stabbed too,” she thought. She then returned to her room and calling emergency companies. “I didn’t know what was going on.”
Her mom had labored as a cleaner at daycare facilities and different amenities in Machida City for a few years. She recalled her as a “kind and hardworking person.”
Since she started to have leg issues two or three years in the past, her vary of motion has turn out to be restricted, however she nonetheless went to the grocery store virtually each day. On the day of the incident, she went out purchasing alone. She was attacked on her approach dwelling.
“If I had struggled with the assailant, would my mother have been saved?” her daughter asks. She can’t get her mom’s last moments out of her thoughts, and is overcome with emotions of guilt. “It must have hurt. Why did it have to be my mother?” she asks.
“It doesn’t seem real,” she says, “I’m not yet feeling particularly angry,” however she is livid on the suspect. “I want him to be properly punished.”
The daughter strains her voice in including, “Just hearing about it makes me shiver. He didn’t have to stab her dozens of times. Why was such a cruel method the only option?”