Overview
- The two shootings occurred in Kobe about 20 minutes apart on Wednesday and left a man in his 60s dead and a man in his 50s wounded but conscious.
- The first attack happened in Kamitsutsuidori in Chuo Ward at about 1:15 p.m., when the older victim was shot and taken to hospital in cardiopulmonary arrest and later pronounced dead.
- About 20 minutes later a second shooting occurred in Aratacho in Hyogo Ward, where a man in his 50s was shot in the back and remained conscious after emergency services arrived.
- Police officers converged on the second scene, arrested a male suspect nearby under emergency arrest for attempted murder, and later identified him in reporting as 79-year-old Naoto Kametani who has acknowledged the charges.
- Hyogo prefectural police are continuing a detailed probe to establish the exact sequence and motive for the two daytime attacks in a city and prefecture that rarely sees gun violence.