Aoki told investigators he shot the two police officers “because I assumed they would gun me down,” the sources said. Nagano prefectural police on May 27 examined the police car left at the ...

Nagano prefectural police said the number of ... local women were killed in the shooting and stabbing spree. Masanori Aoki, 31, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering one of the police ...

Investigative sources say Aoki told police he carried out the knife attack because he thought he was being spoken ill of, and he shot the officers because he thought they might shoot him.