His 41-year-old killer Shinzo Abe had originally planned to carry out a bomb attack to kill its former prime minister Japanwhile then changed his mind and using parts he bought online he assembled the deadly weapon.
According to Reuters, Yamagami he assembled the gun from parts he bought online and spent months planning the attack, even going to attend Abe campaign events, including one on the eve of the assassination, 200 kilometers away from Nara, media reported.
He had planned a bomb attack before resorting to the gun attack, according to public broadcaster NHK.
The suspect told police he made weapons by wrapping metal pipes with tape, some with three, five or six pipes with parts he bought online, according to NHK.
Police found bullet holes in a sign affixed to an Abe campaign van near the site of the attack that they believe came from Yamagami, police said today.
Videos show Abe turning to the gunman’s side after the first shot before collapsing to the ground after the second.
Closed man
Yamagami lived on the eighth floor of a small apartment building. The ground floor was full of bars where customers pay to drink and chat with the waitresses.
The elevator stops on the third floor – a design to save money. Yamagami continued up the stairs to the eighth floor where his house is located.
A 69-year-old neighbor of his, who lives downstairs, had seen him three days before the murder.
“I greeted him but he ignored me. He was looking down at the ground and was not wearing a mask. He seemed nervous,” the woman told Reuters, giving only her surname, Nakayama. “It was as if I was invisible. He looked like something was bothering him,” he continues.
Nakayama pays rent of $260 a month and estimates that her neighbors pay the same amount.
A Vietnamese woman who lives in the apartment next door to Yamagami and said her name is Mai described him as a closed guy. “I saw him a couple of times. I greeted him in the elevator, but he didn’t say anything.”
Navy experience
A man named Tetsuya Yamagami served in Japan’s Naval Self-Defense Force from 2002 to 2005, a Japanese Navy spokesman said, declining to comment on whether the man is the suspect as reported by media.
“During their service, members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force train with live fire once a year. They also do disassembly and maintenance of the weapons,” a senior Navy officer told Reuters.
“But as they follow orders when they do, it’s hard to believe they’re gaining enough knowledge to be able to build weapons. Even long-serving soldiers don’t know how to make weapons,” he said.
Shortly after leaving the Navy, Yamagami was hired by a human reimgs company and in late 2020 began working at a factory in Kyoto as a forklift operator, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
He was not in trouble until mid-April when he took an unauthorized absence from work and then told his supervisor he wanted to quit, the same publication said. He used his leave and left his job on May 15.
Source: News Beast
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