Current Events > Lunatic kills cop with a knife, steals his gun and attacks elementary school.

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A 21-year-old man attacked a police box in the city of Toyama on Tuesday, stabbing a police officer to death and fatally shooting a security guard at a nearby elementary school with the gun he took from the officer, police said.

Keita Shimazu, a former member of the Self-Defense Forces, was arrested at the scene after shooting the construction site guard near the front gate of the school, where teachers and students were on alert.

Kenichi Inaizumi, the 46-year-old head of the police box, and Nakamura, 68, were pronounced dead after they were taken to hospital, while Shimazu remains in critical condition, having been shot by another police officer, the police said.

The police officer had sustained dozens of stab wounds to his stomach and other parts of the body, the police said. The suspect apparently fired multiple shots as Nakamura, who was found lying on the ground near the school gate, had gunshot wounds to his head and left shoulder, the police said.

According to an eyewitness account, the suspect was arrested on the premises of the Okuda Elementary School after he was shot.

He was armed with an ax and two knives, with one discovered around the police box and the other two confiscated when he was detained, according to the police. Police said he entered the police box through the back entrance, stabbed Inaizumi and took his gun.

Shimazu showed his weapons to two police officers who arrived at the scene and confronted them before he was shot, the police said. When Shimazu, a resident of the town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, entered the school, students were warned not to leave their classrooms.

At around 2:30 p.m., the police informed the municipal board of education that a man holding a knife was roaming around the school.

Teachers then escorted all the students to the gymnasium and they stayed there until the crisis was over. The teachers were guarding the entrances to the gym with brooms and sticks in their hands, according to the school.

"We were sitting and waiting. I was so scared and not able to talk to my friends," an 8-year-old boy in the second grade said.

A 76-year-old woman who has lived in the area for about 60 years said she heard gunshots and saw a police officer running in front of her home, yelling "shooting, shooting."

Shimazu joined the Ground Self-Defense Force in March 2015 and was stationed at Camp Kanazawa in Ishikawa, the neighboring prefecture of Toyama, from April that year. He left the GSDF in March 2017. Tomohiro Yamada, chief of the Toyama prefectural police, said at a press conference that the stolen pistol was retrieved, expressing regret that a police officer was robbed of his firearm.

The incident drew immediate media attention as Japan is seen as relatively free from gun crime due to strict controls, although in recent years several incidents involving police guns have occurred.

In January 2016, a man took a gun from a police officer and fired four shots at him in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, seriously injuring the officer.

In April this year, a 19-year-old police officer shot another officer dead at a police box in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan.

In response to incidents in which officers were robbed of their guns, police have been engaging in activities nationwide to raise awareness among officers of the need to carefully maintain control of their weapons at all times.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/2-dead-including-police-officer-after-man-attacks-Toyama-police-box



This confuses me. I thought cops ALWAYS went off in pairs specifcally due to this kind of thing. He wasn't off duty.

Cops and armchair cops! Explain! Do they really send armed cops out alone in the street? That seems dangerous. What stops them from being overpowered like this? Who vouches for them if they shoot perps?
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They should start putting their guns on a retractable leash like keys or id badges.
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

They should start putting their guns on a retractable leash like keys or id badges.

Think before you post.
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Only in Ameri... pan?
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I've seen cops in Canada and everywhere I've been in Asia out solo. The police boxes in Thailand typically only have 1 cop there, same when they are out directing traffic.
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MuayThai85 posted...

I've seen cops in Canada and everywhere I've been in Asia out solo.

Armed with guns?

What stops any nut or nut and pal from boinking them from behind and taking it?

Especially if it's a female

I know cops are supposed to be fit but I've met plenty of cops whose asses I could kick in a fair fight, let alone if I pearl habored them. And let alone if me and other guy did it together.

Just feels like a great way to illegally get a gun if you need one fast and don't care about consequences.
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Yes, all were armed.
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This is why only cops and the military should have knives
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if only the elementary school had guns
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Why would Japanese police tape need English wording?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Why would Japanese police tape need English wording?

Because English is the language of business and far in away the most widely spoken second language in the world.

Millions of people in Japan read English
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and he was never seen again
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I know unfair is trolling, but you dont need to read japanese to understand "orange tape blocking access to an area"
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UnfairRepresent posted...

and he was never seen again

Well, I don't think it would need a response since it was a question that ended up being answered.
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But it was in Japan and not America so no one cares

please have common sense knife control
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Trump's America
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C_Pain posted...

please have common sense knife control

Meanwhile, in England...
https://twitter.com/MPSRegentsPark/status/974645778558980096/photo/1

Japan has even worse mental health problems than the US and they have much less guns. You never go a week almost anywhere in Japan without some deranged person attacking someone and you got slightly more instances of deranged wives attacking husbands.
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Hop103 posted...

Japan has even worse mental health problems than the US and they have much less guns. You never go a week almost anywhere in Japan without some deranged person attacking someone

Violent crime in Japan is low
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Hop103 posted...

Japan has even worse mental health problems than the US and they have much less guns. You never go a week almost anywhere in Japan without some deranged person attacking someone

Violent crime in Japan is low

Lower than Western countries, but It's less safer in Japan now than it was 20+ years ago. However, the murder rate is still quite low.
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Hop103 posted...

Japan has even worse mental health problems than the US and they have much less guns. You never go a week almost anywhere in Japan without some deranged person attacking someone and you got slightly more instances of deranged wives attacking husbands.

You never go an hour without someone getting shot dead in the US. lmao the extent gun nuts go to.