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Former staffer arrested after deadly rampage at disabled home：The Asahi Shimbun
Former staffer arrested after deadly rampage at disabled home
A former staff member of a home for the disabled in Kanagawa Prefecture admitted to going on a deadly stabbing rampage in his former workplace early on July 26, police said.
Nineteen people were killed and 26 others injured, many of them seriously, at the Tsukui Yamayurien facility in Sagamihara in the northwestern part of the prefecture.
According to the National Police Agency, the stabbing rampage is the worst such incident since 1989 in terms of the death toll.
The 19 people killed consisted of nine men between the ages of 41 and 67 and 10 women aged between 19 and 70.
The man later turned himself into a police station in Sagamihara and was immediately arrested.
He was identified as Satoshi Uematsu, 26, who worked at the facility from December 2012 to February this year.
“I hope that disabled people will disappear (from this world),” he told police.
According to Kanagawa prefectural police, an employee of the facility called police at around 2:40 a.m. saying, “Something serious has taken place.”
Police said Uematsu broke into the facility at around 2:10 a.m. and stabbed residents there in rapid succession.
At about 3 a.m., he surrendered himself to the local Tsukui Police Station after driving there by car. He was wearing a black T-shirt and black trousers, and three knives were found in his bag. At least one was stained with blood.
A window on the first floor of the facility had been broken, and a hammer was found nearby. Police received another call at around 2:45 a.m., which said, “A man broke into our facility.”
The caller also said, “We (staff members) were bound, and during that time, people were stabbed.”
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Local police have said he sent a handwritten letter to politicians in February in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people. He was kept in hospital for almost two weeks before being released.
The facility, set in extensive grounds, had about 150 residents at the time of the attack, according to local officials. Eight staff members were on duty at the time.
Former staffer arrested after deadly rampage at disabled home：The Asahi Shimbun
Former staffer arrested after deadly rampage at disabled home
A former staff member of a home for the disabled in Kanagawa Prefecture admitted to going on a deadly stabbing rampage in his former workplace early on July 26, police said.
Nineteen people were killed and 26 others injured, many of them seriously, at the Tsukui Yamayurien facility in Sagamihara in the northwestern part of the prefecture.
According to the National Police Agency, the stabbing rampage is the worst such incident since 1989 in terms of the death toll.
The 19 people killed consisted of nine men between the ages of 41 and 67 and 10 women aged between 19 and 70.
The man later turned himself into a police station in Sagamihara and was immediately arrested.
He was identified as Satoshi Uematsu, 26, who worked at the facility from December 2012 to February this year.
“I hope that disabled people will disappear (from this world),” he told police.
According to Kanagawa prefectural police, an employee of the facility called police at around 2:40 a.m. saying, “Something serious has taken place.”
Police said Uematsu broke into the facility at around 2:10 a.m. and stabbed residents there in rapid succession.
At about 3 a.m., he surrendered himself to the local Tsukui Police Station after driving there by car. He was wearing a black T-shirt and black trousers, and three knives were found in his bag. At least one was stained with blood.
A window on the first floor of the facility had been broken, and a hammer was found nearby. Police received another call at around 2:45 a.m., which said, “A man broke into our facility.”
The caller also said, “We (staff members) were bound, and during that time, people were stabbed.”
...
Local police have said he sent a handwritten letter to politicians in February in which he threatened to kill hundreds of disabled people. He was kept in hospital for almost two weeks before being released.
The facility, set in extensive grounds, had about 150 residents at the time of the attack, according to local officials. Eight staff members were on duty at the time.
