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Jul 8, 2022 · Within hours of a 41-year-old suspect’s arrest in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with an improvised gun, police raided Tetsuya Yamagami’s home Friday and...
- richard.winton@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Jul 10, 2022 · Police arrested a 41-year-old man at the scene and said he had admitted shooting Abe; the suspect was later identified as Tetsuya Yamagami.
Jul 8, 2022 · Police officials said he used a “homemade” gun and confessed that he had intended to kill Mr. Abe because he believed the former prime minister to have some association with a group against...
- 1 min
- Motoko Rich, Makiko Inoue, Hikari Hida,Hisako Ueno
Jul 8, 2022 · The discovery followed the arrest of the suspect — identified by officials as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41 — in the western Japanese city of Nara, where Abe had been delivering a campaign speech...
- 6 min
- Arata Yamamoto,Erik Ortiz
Jul 11, 2022 · Tetsuya Yamagami, who was arrested on the spot, was a former member of Japan’s navy and knew how to handle and assemble weapons. Crime experts say instructions on how to make guns are floating around on the internet and guns can be made with a 3D printer.
- ykageyama@ap.org
- Japan Reporter
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Jan 13, 2023 · Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested immediately after allegedly shooting Abe with a homemade gun as the former leader was making a campaign speech in July outside a train station in Nara in western Japan. He then underwent a nearly six-month mental evaluation, which prosecutors said showed he is fit to stand trial.
While little is definitively known about the double-barreled firearm used by the suspect — 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami — preliminary expert analysis indicates that it was composed of...
