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People pray at a makeshift memorial at the spot where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in Nara.

The man who killed Shinzo Abe believed the former Japanese leader was linked to a religious group he blamed for his mother’s financial ruin and spent months planning the attack with a homemade gun, the police told local media on Saturday.

Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 41-year-old, was identified as the suspect after Japan’s longest-serving PM was shot from behind.

The suspect was seen stepping into the road behind Abe, who was standing on a platform at an intersection, before firing two shots from a 40-cm-long weapon wrapped with a black tape. He was tackled by the police at the scene.

Yamagami was a loner who did not reply when spoken to, neighbours said. He believed Abe had promoted a religious group that his mother went bankrupt donating to, Kyodo news agency said, citing investigative sources.

“My mother got involved with a religious group and I resented it,” Kyodo and other domestic media quoted him as telling the police. However, the Nara police declined to comment on it. Media have not named the religious group he was reportedly upset with.

Yamagami assembled the weapon from parts bought online, spending months plotting the attack, even attending other Abe campaign events, including one a day earlier some 200 km away, media said.

He had considered a bomb attack before opting for a gun, according to NHK, a public broadcaster.

The suspect told the police he made guns by wrapping steel pipes together with a tape, some of them even with five or six pipes, with the parts he bought online, NHK said.

The police found bullet holes in a sign attached to a campaign van near the site of the shooting and believe these were from Yamagami’s gun.

A spokesman for Japan’s navy said a person named Tetsuya Yamagami served in the Maritime Self-Defence Force from 2002 to 2005.

He declined to confirm whether the person was the suspected killer. “Yamagami joined a training unit in Sasebo, a major navy base in the southwest, and was assigned to a destroyer artillery section,” he said. “During their service, members of the Self-Defence Force train with live ammunition once a year. They also do maintenance of guns,” an officer said.

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The man probably slept with his daughter like all these Japanese porn as underage sex is legal or rather the consent age is 13-15 thereabout.

Or maybe he slept with his mum,.. Lol.. or slept with his wife( although very few men would pull out a gun for this)

I honestly doubt it was because of money. The media is trying to protect the dead mans image.

I can only imagine the pain at close range

Very painful and embarrassing death in a peaceful country

Thantayo:
The man probably slept with his daughter like all these Japanese porn as underage sex is legal or rather the consent age is 13-15 thereabout.

Or maybe he slept with his mum,.. Lol.. or slept with his wife( although very few men would pull out a gun for this)

I honestly doubt it was because of money. The media is trying to protect the dead mans image.

Are you based in Japan or know alot about the Japanese people?

That was a stupid reason to kill someone. His mother wasn't forced to donate to the religious group, whatever it was. If she gave her money to the group and went bankrupt doing it, then it's her fault. Methinks there's a more to this story that meets the eye.

A lesson for Nigeria, this is one of results of sit-tight syndrome, and promoting a religious bigotry, all these things happened in Nigeria and people keep quiet.agentina,did not keep quiet, over high cost of fuel they came to the street, the same thing in SriLanka, protest erupted because bad governance, Nigerians should learn from them, and never keep quiet over bad governance

100% as expected. See my earlier thought on this

His mother donated all the family's money to the religious group, so that he could not go to college despite his good grades.