As he raised his fist to make a point, two gunshots rang out, and he collapsed holding his chest, his shirt smeared with blood as security guards ran toward him. Police said Yamagami was responding calmly to questions and had admitted to attacking Abe, telling investigators he had plotted to kill him because he believed rumors about the former leader's connection to a certain organization that police did not identify.ĭramatic video from broadcaster NHK showed Abe standing and giving a speech outside a train station ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election. Police said he used a gun that was obviously homemade - about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long - and they confiscated similar weapons and his personal computer when they raided his nearby one-room apartment. Police at the shooting scene arrested Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a former member of Japan's navy, on suspicion of murder. A timeline of the career of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.Japan stunned over assassination as shootings considered rare.He never regained his vital signs, Fukushima said. Nara Medical University emergency department chief Hidetada Fukushima said Abe suffered major damage to his heart, along with two neck wounds that damaged an artery. Abe's wife Akie lowered her head as the vehicle passed before a crowd of journalists. He was later pronounced dead after receiving massive blood transfusions, officials said.Ī hearse carrying Abe's body left the hospital early Saturday to head back to his home in Tokyo.
The 67-year-old Abe, who was Japan's longest-serving leader when he resigned in 2020, collapsed bleeding and was airlifted to a nearby hospital in Nara, although he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech - an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
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