OSAKA (TR) – A person in custody over the stabbing of three male youths, one fatally, in Osaka City late Saturday has mentioned that he had “no intent to kill,” police mentioned, based on the Asahi Shimbun (Feb. 15).
At round 11:50 p.m., Ryoga Iwazaki, 21, is alleged to have used a knife to repeatedly stab Takanosuke Kamata, 17, a resident of Nara Prefecture, within the chest at a business constructing close to the Dotonbori River in Chuo Ward.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of homicide, he instructed police, “I had no intent to kill. I initially intended to intimidate [Kamata] with the knife, but as he approached him I stabbed him in the chest.”
Iwazaki can be believed to have stabbed two different youths, additionally 17, within the higher physique. They had been each taken to a hospital. One of the 2 victims is in important situation, police mentioned beforehand.
After the incident, Iwazaki fled the scene with the knife. At round 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, police apprehended the suspect as he walked with the knife on a avenue about 1.5 kilometers from the crime scene.
According to police, there have been seven or eight women and men on the scene on the time of the incident. Based on accounts from witnesses, Iwasaki, who had been warned by the victims about harassing a lady, pulled out the knife and attacked them.
The particulars of the incident are beneath investigation.