Police in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, have arrested a 36-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of firing a BB gun at a nine-year-old boy in a park, injuring him in the back.
Police said the incident occurred at around 5:30 p.m. on May 22 at Koaigi Genki Park, NHK reported. The boy was playing in the park when he was hit in the back by the pellets. His mother noticed that his back had turned red and called 110. The boy was taken to a hospital where he was treated for a minor injury.
The suspect, Shunsuke Suda, lives next to the park, police said. He was detained for questioning based on the account of a witness. Police said Suda has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying, “I have no recollection of the incident.”
When police searched Suda’s home, they found seven air guns and BB pellets.
Police said they have received multiple calls about BB pellets being fired into the park since last year.
© Japan Today
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TokyoLiving
Pathetic coward clown...
To the jail!!!..
obladi
Much, much better than in the U.S., where he would have has real guns, and yet another example of how sane laws save lives.
Sh1mon M4sada
Sicko, lock up, long time!
Speed
Clever! He knows not to talk.
CaptDingleheimer
If that was my son, I’d be wearing an orange jumpsuit right now and you’d be reading about me in the news.
Stewart Gale
CaptDingleheimer
If he was your son, you would wear an orange jumpsuit?
Why?
Mr Goodman
Kinda pathetic to be shooting children in the park with a pellet gun
Throw that terrorist in prison
garypen
“I have no recollection of the incident.”
How original!
Stewart Gale
Garypen, it must be his birthday or something. Not “the gallows” today.
Alongfortheride
Partially agree. But guns don't kill people, people do.