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kristopher

(29,798 posts)
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:55 PM Jul 2016

Updates on Japanese man that killed 19 disabled people

Massacre suspect bound some night shift workers with cable ties

Satoshi Uematsu is seen in Yokohama on July 27, 2016. (Mainichi)
SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa -- Some workers at a care home for the disabled where a massacre took place in the wee hours of July 26 had been bound by the suspect with cable ties, while one worker who managed to hide contacted colleagues on his mobile phone, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned from sources close to the facility....

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160728/p2a/00m/0na/008000c

Mass killing suspect said 'Hitler's ideas' came to him in February
SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa -- Suspected care home mass murderer Satoshi Uematsu told staff at a hospital in February that he agreed with the ideas of Adolf Hitler, city officials here have told the Mainichi Shimbun....
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160729/p2a/00m/0na/001000c


Stabbing rampage suspect suddenly changed behavior in February
The suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage at a care facility for the disabled here suddenly changed his language and behavior in February this year -- around the time when he suggested that he would commit mass murder, sources at the facility said...

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160728/p2a/00m/0na/004000c
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Updates on Japanese man that killed 19 disabled people (Original Post) kristopher Jul 2016 OP
This is horrific. MADem Jul 2016 #1
"Stabbing rampage suspect suddenly changed behavior in February" NaturalHigh Jul 2016 #2
Psychosis maxsolomon Jul 2016 #3

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. This is horrific.
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:59 PM
Jul 2016
Uematsu attacked a total of 45 people, of whom 19 are dead and 26 others injured



And he turned himself in...?
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