Post by Linalin on Feb 17, 2005 11:00:24 GMT -5
OSAKA — The police on Wednesday sent a 17-year-old boy to the prosecutors on suspicion of stabbing a teacher to death and injuring two other people at an elementary school in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, on Monday.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, has admitted the stabbing but denied that the crime was premeditated, police sources said. The boy, who lives in Neyagawa, used to study at the school.
He told police he had a grudge against a teacher, who was not one of the victims, at the school, police sources said Tuesday.
The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, also told investigators he believes he did the wrong thing but that he did not intend to kill anyone, the sources said.
The sources said the boy told them that his sixth-grade teacher did not help him when he was bullied in the class at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School, while the teacher, who still works at the school, told police he had no idea why he was the target of the teen's grudge.
According to the police sources, the boy, who lives in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, never contacted the teacher after promotion from the school five years ago and had no trouble with the school in the meantime. The three who were stabbed apparently had no connection with his grudge.
Investigators are still looking into the boy's claim of having been bullied at the school, the sources said.
The boy took two kitchen knives to the school Monday but used only one in the incident, they said.
The suspect stabbed to death 52-year-old teacher Michiaki Kamozaki, and injured Mizue Tomomura, 57, another teacher, and Akemi Fukushima, a 45-year-old dietician for the school.
No pupils at the school were harmed in the attack, which took place shortly after 3 p.m. Monday.
About an hour before the incident, a person believed to have been the suspect asked via an interphone at the school gate whether the sixth-grade teacher was in, the sources said.
The teacher was at the school but did not meet the boy that day, they said.
The boy, after intruding into the school, apparently asked Kamozaki for the way to the teachers' office when Kamozaki was talking with another teacher in the hallway on the first floor of the schoolhouse, the sources said.
Kamozaki is believed to have been showing the boy the way to the teachers' office when he was stabbed in the back through the heart, they said.
The teen then went to the teachers' office on the second floor and attacked the other teacher and the dietician, they said.
The police are currently trying to find out how the boy intruded into the school, which was closed Tuesday because of Monday's stabbings.
The teen has also told the investigators he has been receiving counseling since last year at an institution for autistic people and truant students, the police sources said.
It shows that even without guns, there is still major school violence.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, has admitted the stabbing but denied that the crime was premeditated, police sources said. The boy, who lives in Neyagawa, used to study at the school.
He told police he had a grudge against a teacher, who was not one of the victims, at the school, police sources said Tuesday.
The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, also told investigators he believes he did the wrong thing but that he did not intend to kill anyone, the sources said.
The sources said the boy told them that his sixth-grade teacher did not help him when he was bullied in the class at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School, while the teacher, who still works at the school, told police he had no idea why he was the target of the teen's grudge.
According to the police sources, the boy, who lives in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, never contacted the teacher after promotion from the school five years ago and had no trouble with the school in the meantime. The three who were stabbed apparently had no connection with his grudge.
Investigators are still looking into the boy's claim of having been bullied at the school, the sources said.
The boy took two kitchen knives to the school Monday but used only one in the incident, they said.
The suspect stabbed to death 52-year-old teacher Michiaki Kamozaki, and injured Mizue Tomomura, 57, another teacher, and Akemi Fukushima, a 45-year-old dietician for the school.
No pupils at the school were harmed in the attack, which took place shortly after 3 p.m. Monday.
About an hour before the incident, a person believed to have been the suspect asked via an interphone at the school gate whether the sixth-grade teacher was in, the sources said.
The teacher was at the school but did not meet the boy that day, they said.
The boy, after intruding into the school, apparently asked Kamozaki for the way to the teachers' office when Kamozaki was talking with another teacher in the hallway on the first floor of the schoolhouse, the sources said.
Kamozaki is believed to have been showing the boy the way to the teachers' office when he was stabbed in the back through the heart, they said.
The teen then went to the teachers' office on the second floor and attacked the other teacher and the dietician, they said.
The police are currently trying to find out how the boy intruded into the school, which was closed Tuesday because of Monday's stabbings.
The teen has also told the investigators he has been receiving counseling since last year at an institution for autistic people and truant students, the police sources said.
It shows that even without guns, there is still major school violence.
