NAGANO (TR) – Two persons are dead and another seriously injured after what is believed to have been a shooting in the town of Sakaki on Tuesday, police said, reports TBS News (May 27).
At around 11:30 p.m., police received a distress call from the residence of Takenori Ichikawa, located in the Uwadaira area, about “three people hurt.”
Officers arriving at the scene found three persons — a boy, 16, a man in his 30s and a woman — collapsed inside with wounds to the head.
The boy and the man were later confirmed dead at a hospital. The woman is in serious condition, police said.
Police retrieved what are believed to be two guns from inside. The case is being treated as murder.
Update: The woman has also died.