Uematsu was earlier sent from a regional jail in Sagamihara town, about 45 km (25 miles) southwest of Tokyo, to the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office in Kanagawa prefecture. He was involuntarily committed to hospital after he expressed a "willingness to kill severely disabled people", an official in Sagamihara told Reuters. About half a dozen plainclothes police entered the home of Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the facility, as reporters and television cameras stood by. It is vital to closely examine the system of support for the man and his family, and the contacts between the medical system and the police.” The affair has shocked a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world.

Source: Thanhnien News July 27, 2016 06:56 UTC