SHIZUOKA (TR) – A man fatally stabbed a male attendee of a meeting in Shizuoka City on Saturday before attempting to take his own life, police said, reports NHK (Aug. 3).
Around 7:30 p.m., the man, aged in his 50s, entered a community center in Suruga Ward where a neighborhood association board meeting was being held and stabbed the male attendee with what appeared to be a survival knife.
The victim, 78-year-old Yoshiyuki Ishigami, a nearby resident, was later confirmed dead at a hospital.
The man then apparently stabbed himself with the knife and was taken to hospital. His injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, police said.
The man was in possession of several knives. Police are treating the case as murder.
The crime scene is located approximately 1.2 kilometers south of the Shizuoka Interchange on the Tomei Expressway.
