Overview
- The Fukuoka District Public Prosecutors Office on Jan. 14 initiated psychiatric detention for Naoya Yamaguchi, 30, who was arrested and re-arrested on attempted murder allegations tied to the December stabbings.
- Prosecutors will examine his condition during the alleged attacks near the Mizuho PayPay Dome, where a 44-year-old male HKT-related staffer and a 27-year-old female part-time worker were seriously injured on Dec. 14.
- Police issued multiple crime-prevention alerts between Jan. 12 and 14, including a report of an elementary school boy grabbed in a condominium elevator in Fukuoka’s Chuo Ward.
- Other alerts detailed a female university student followed in Yahatanishi Ward, a child hugged by an unknown man in Sasaguri, a girl touched on a road in Kokurakita Ward, and a junior-high student confronted in Yoshitomi.
- Separately, Hakata Police arrested a disability support facility worker on suspicion of committing indecent acts involving a high school student, as authorities continued public safety messaging across the prefecture.