Tomohiro Kato
Actor
The was an incident of mass murder that took place on Sunday, 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter for electronics, video games, manga and anime in Sotokanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. At 12:33 p.m., a man drove into a crowd with a truck, killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife), killing four people and injuring eight. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested 25-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder. The suspect, dressed then in a black T-shirt with a jacket and off-white trousers, was a resident of Susono, Shizuoka. He was held at the Manseibashi Police Station. Two days later on 10 June, he was sent to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office. He was later re-arrested by the police on 20 June on suspicion of murder. Katō was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in 2011, and the sentence was upheld on appeal in 2015.
The was an incident of mass murder that took place on Sunday, 8 June 2008, in the Akihabara shopping quarter for electronics, video games, manga and anime in Sotokanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
At 12:33 p.m., a man drove into a crowd with a truck, killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife), killing four people and injuring eight.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested 25-year-old on suspicion of attempted murder. The suspect, dressed then in a black T-shirt with a jacket and off-white trousers, was a resident of Susono, Shizuoka. He was held at the Manseibashi Police Station. Two days later on 10 June, he was sent to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office. He was later re-arrested by the police on 20 June on suspicion of murder. Katō was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in 2011, and the sentence was upheld on appeal in 2015.