Euthanasia Fanatic Knifes 19 Disabled People to Death Near Tokyo
The sheer rarity of this kind of violence in that modern culture, against that religious backdrop was a stark reminder to me what the nature of our true enemy is. This man cared not for religion, or gender or age. Nobody propagandized him. Fanatic. Extremist. Killer.
If he had guns or explosives the toll would have been inestimably worse. Still, common objects can and are abused to kill.
A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage early Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired, officials said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled people should be put to death.
My reasoning is that I may be able to revitalize the world economy and I thought it may be possible to prevent World War III
— Letter from stabbing suspect Satoshi UematsuWhen he was finished, Kanagawa prefectural authorities said, 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu had left dead or injured nearly a third of the almost 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes. It is Japan’s deadliest mass killing in decades. The fire department said 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously.
Security camera footage played on TV news programs showed a man driving up in a black car and carrying several knives to the Tsukui Yamayuri-en facility in Sagamihara, 30 miles west of Tokyo. The man broke in by shattering a window at 2:10 a.m., according to a prefectural health official, and then set about slashing the patients’ throats.
Sagamihara fire department official Kunio Takano said the attacker killed 10 women and nine men. The youngest was 19, the oldest 70.