THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 13, 2023 at 12:00 JST
The apartment complex in Osaka where a woman was injured and a knife-carrying man was shot by police on Nov. 13 (Tomoki Miyasaka)
OSAKA--Police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife who is believed to have slashed an elderly woman in a dispute at an apartment complex here on Nov. 13.
The man, 58, was carrying the knife when he approached police officers who were responding to an emergency call around 6 a.m. about “someone yelling” in the building in the Nanko-Higashi 1-chome district in Osaka’s Suminoe Ward.
The officers fired two shots, and one struck the man in the stomach. He was taken to a hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening.
According to the Suminoe Police Department, the man was arguing with a neighbor in her 70s, who was injured in the incident.
Another woman, 82, near the scene said she heard sounds of a scuffle shortly after 6 a.m. She said when she went outside, she heard two “bangs” in quick succession and saw the man collapse and the officers securing him.
“At this time, we believe that the use of the gun was done under a proper execution of police duties,” Naoki Honda, deputy chief of the Suminoe Police Station, said.
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