TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Friday arrested a 56-year-old male employee at a sushi restaurant in Toshima Ward over the alleged fatal stabbing of a colleague, reports Fuji News Network (July 26).
At just past 4:30 p.m., police arrived at the restaurant to find Tomoyuki Iwata, 32, collapsed and bleeding in the restaurant in the Ikebukuro area with multiple stab wounds to his chest and stomach.
He was later confirmed dead at a hospital, police said.
Police later arrested Masato Ishioka, a resident of Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, on suspicion of murder. “Our relationship was not going well and I exploded with anger,” Ishioka said. “I stabbed him with a knife that was in the restaurant.”
Immediately after the incident, Ishioka turned himself in at a nearby koban police box with blood on his mask. “I stabbed someone,” he said.
When police officers rushed to the sushi restaurant, they found Iwata collapsed near the entrance with a bloodstained knife nearby.
The restaurant is located about 300 meters from JR Ikebukuro Station.
AloJapan.com