Crime Two teenagers stabbed at a fast-food restaurant in Kitakyushu, one dies

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Two teenagers were stabbed at a fast-food restaurant in Kitakyushu City on the night of December 14th, and a female student died.



A man wielding a knife fled the scene, and police are currently searching for him. At around 8:20 pm on December 14th, a report was made of a stabbing at the McDonald's 322 Tokuriki store in Kokuraminami Ward, Kitakyushu City.

According to the police, a male and female student who were standing in line at the register were stabbed by a man. The female student, 15-year-old Sakaya Nakajima, was transported to a hospital but died.

The other student, also 15 years old, was also taken to the hospital but was not seriously injured.

Police say Nakajima was stabbed once in the abdomen, and the male student was stabbed once in the lower back. The male student stated that he did not know the attacker.

The suspect is described as a man in his 40s, approximately 170 centimetres tall, wearing a grey jacket, black pants, and yellowish footwear.

The man is still on the run with what appears to be a knife, and police have set up a task force to investigate the case as a homicide.
 
Looks like they caught the guy:

Police arrested an unemployed man today in connection with a stabbing attack at a McDonald's restaurant that resulted in the death of a 15-year-old female junior high school student and injuries to her male classmate. The 43-year-old suspect, Masanori Hirabaru, resides near the crime scene in Kokura-Minami Ward. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder concerning the male student and is also under investigation for the murder of the female student. According to police, Hirabaru admitted to his involvement in the attack. The incident occurred at McDonald's 322 Tokuriki Store on 14 December around 20:25.


According to prefectural police, Nakajima and her classmate were standing in line at the cash register when they were attacked. Nakajima was stabbed in her stomach and was pronounced dead at a hospital. The male student suffered a deep stab wound to his lower back. He reportedly told police he did not know the assailant. According to police, the attacker entered the restaurant from the east side facing National Road Route 322, one of the two entrances to the outlet. After the stabbings, the attacker immediately fled through the same entrance and headed north. The assailant was in the restaurant for less than 30 seconds, and police could not find bystanders who witnessed the attack. According to investigative sources, security camera footage showed a man matching the description of the attacker, who was wearing yellow sandals. A 91-member task force was set up at the Kokura-Minami Police Station to find the perpetrator.




 
As a criminal was not readily arrested though a criminal was reflected in the security camera, it was uneasy.
At last I was relieved that a criminal was arrested.

[junior high student two casualties case] confiscate a black van. As for the mysterious behavior. The man thing image?
Kitakyushu-shi (FBS Fukuoka Broadcasting News)

It was a knife, and two junior high students were bitten by a man in a fast food restaurant of Kitakyushu-shi on the night of 14th, and a school girl died, and the 43-year-old man who lived near the spot on case, 19th when a boy student had a serious injury was arrested. I look back on movement from outbreak.

It is Kokuraminami police station of Kitakyushu-shi where police officers go in and out of busily at past 10:00 a.m. on 19th.

■Reporter Makoto Miyahara
"The car with the suspect enters the Kokuraminami police station now. A curtain is done and cannot see the situation of the inside."

The Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrested Suspect Masanori Hirahara (43) without an occupation to live in in Kitakyushu-shi.

The ghastly case that happened in the fast food restaurant which anyone used. The case suddenly unfolded from outbreak on 5th.

The case happened at around half past 8 p.m. on 14th.

■Reporter Miyahara
It "is this restaurant that a junior high student was stabbed. The police are working on discernment now near the entrance of the shop."

A 15-year-old boy student was stabbed by a man with the thing such as the knife in the classmates of the junior high school same as Saaya Nakajima (15) which visited the shop in a McDonald's 322 Tokuriki shop of Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu-shi suddenly.

The man went straight toward the junior high school boy with Nakajima who lined up in the tail of the line in front of the cash register after the entering a shop and I stabbed it with two and, according to a person concerned with investigation, escaped. Meanwhile, it is said that it was only "ten several seconds".

Nakajima was stabbed in the abdomen and died, and the boy student was stabbed in a waist and suffered a serious wound as it might become the fatal injury. When he was conveyed to the hospital, the boy student "was bitten by a person not to know. I said, I do not know a criminal.

The trouble to lead to a case was not confirmed when the police checked the histories of the smartphone of Nakajima and showed a stronger viewpoint with "a slasher-like crime".

The weapon is not found in the case spot and the outskirts, a man with something like knife remained it, and left the spot.

Uneasiness spread around after case.

■University student
As "the house is near, I feel it when scared."
It "is very uneasy not to be caught. Near. I want you to catch early."

The police announced that they wore something like yellow-like sandals at the time of the escape at around 40 years old light about the characteristic of the man who escaped. The police set up the investigation headquarters to chase the whereabouts of the man, and one hundred people dealt with the investigation. In the building close to the spot.

■Employee of the shop
"Is it considered a security camera "(to an investigator)?" This be said. I seem to look at the security camera. I seem to be looking."

The police made every possible effort for the arrest of the suspect.

And 19th when five days passed from case occurrence.

■Kokuraminami police station, Chief Munenori Mochimaru
About "cases such as murder of the junior high student damage that occurred in Tokuriki, Kokuraminami-ku, Kitakyushu-shi on December 14, I usually arrested suspects for attempted murder some time ago. It is unemployment, Suspect Masanori Hirahara, 43 years old."

Suspect Masanori Hirahara (43) to live in near the case spot was arrested on the suspicion of attempted murder.

According to the police, it is the doubt that Suspect Hirahara sticks the waist of the 15-year-old boy student in something like knife on 14th and was going to kill.

In an interview, I gradually knew the situation at the time of the case.

Boy student and Saaya Nakajima of the victim entered the fast food restaurant at around 8:10 p.m. on 14th. At the same time, Suspect Hirahara is considered to leave a car in the parking lot of the shop, and to have been just in the inside of car for ten several minutes.

■Reporter Kanta Shirano
"The suspect leaves a car in that parking lot, and it means that I invaded it from this entrance."

When two junior high students line up in the tail of the line of the order at around 8:25 p.m., Suspect Hirahara enters it and leaves straight based on two, and it is silent and stabs it in sequence, and a shop is considered to have appeared. And I get in a car left in the parking lot of the shop, and Suspect Hirahara is considered to have escaped.

To the security camera which is in the middle of going home, Suspect Hirahara and a seen person in yellow sandals are that it seemed to me afterwards.

Suspect Hirahara testifies, "I surely did the act" for the investigation by police and accepts the charge.

What kind of person is arrested Suspect Hirahara? I asked a neighboring person.

■Neighborhood inhabitants
Surprised. I am not doing it (as for the neighborly relations). I always open chairs at the entrance and smoke. If why is it."
From such "a voice is good house in "おんどりゃー" or "なんとかー" of the feeling that I got angry." at
That "it is said that I am scared atmospherically is not the atmosphere that seems to be gentle."

It is said that Suspect Hirahara was a single life in a single house. I lived in the residential area about 1 kilo away from the fast food restaurant which became the case spot.

There was a police officer in the home of Suspect Hirahara.

■Reporter Yuichiro Kodama
"Is it a confiscated car? A black van came out of the home of the suspect."

I confiscate a car considered to have used the police on the day of the case and check it. The inhabitants neighboring for the suspect arrest in the neighborhood.

■Neighborhood inhabitants
"I was scared. Because I heard that I was caught, it was good."
As "there was the child of the primary schoolchild, I was finally really caught for worry and was relieved."

Mayor Takeuchi of Kitakyushu-shi held an interview at past 3:00 p.m. on 19th.

■Mayor Takeuchi
"The mean crime that took the life of a certain future youth. I remember strong resentment here. I want to continue an approach protecting relief security while planning cooperation with the police, local, citizen's to protect children, civic security as administration sequentially."

The case that the life of the junior high student lost suddenly. The police consider that Suspect Hirahara participates about the killing of Saaya Nakajima and they check it and investigate it about motives.
 
Sometimes, it just takes a wrong look...

A 43-year-old man, Masanori Hirabaru, has confessed to stabbing two teenagers at a McDonald's in Kitakyushu. He stated that he targeted the 15-year-old victims because he believed they were mocking him when their eyes met as they passed each other on the street.


 
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