Large knife deep into police officer’s chest…31-year-old suspect in Nagano murders of 4 people “ignored 8 out of 10 times,” horrifying true crime photo

A man who took the precious lives of four people, including a neighbor and a police officer, has been arrested again.

On June 16, Nagano Prefectural Police re-arrested Masanori Aoki, 31, of Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture. Aoki was arrested on May 26 for the murder of a 61-year-old police officer. He was re-arrested on suspicion of murdering another police officer, Mr. A, 46.

It is known that about a month and a half before the crime, Aoki purchased a large knife with a blade length of about 30 cm, called a “bow knife,” through online shopping. He may have been planning the murders since then.

The two slain police officers arrived at the scene after receiving a report that two women on a walk had been stabbed with a large knife. Mr. A, who was in the passenger seat of the patrol car, was shot in the left arm with a hunting rifle by the suspect Aoki and was taken out of the car. It was discovered from drive recorder footage that she was stabbed deeply near the heart with a large knife and died shortly afterward.

FRIDAY Digital reported in detail on the horrific incident in which Aoki killed four people in an article distributed on June 4. We would like to recount the background of the case and look back at the horrified face of Aoki.

Aoki was wearing camouflage clothing.

A woman screamed, “Help! A woman came running toward him, screaming, “Help! The man chased after her from behind and stabbed her in the back with a large knife, twice. The man stabbed the woman a third time in the chest, and then he ran away peacefully toward his house, not looking back. She did not even turn around. He was wearing camouflage clothes, a black mask, and sunglasses.

The tragic incident in Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture, occurred just after 4 p.m. on May 25. Aoki, a resident of the city, was arrested for stabbing to death two women who were out for a walk and shooting two police officers who rushed to the scene with a hunting rifle.

Aoki grew up with two well-known parents in the area: a father who was a city council president (now resigned) and a mother who ran a gelato store and held flower art classes. Unlike his socially active parents, he was a very introverted person.

We will look into the true face of the suspect who committed this horrific crime, based on testimonies from neighbors and other sources.

I have never seen him hanging out with his friends. I never saw him hanging out with his friends. He didn’t seem to reject relationships, as has been reported, but rather seemed to prefer to be alone at all times.

After graduating from a prestigious public high school in the neighborhood, Aoki wasted one year to get into Tokai University and moved to Tokyo. However, as one of his classmates said, he probably did not feel at ease with his surroundings. Unable to adapt to city life, he dropped out of college and returned to his hometown.

I worked in an orchard in a neighboring town,” he said. Even if I greeted them once in a while, it was never a conversation. In some cases, farm work is done in groups, but even in those cases, they don’t work together, they just stand there by themselves. There were times when the people who did the work were taken aback.

Aoki had also joined a local festival preservation society through his father. A member of the association recalls.

A member of the association recalls, “He played the kagura, played the flute in the tatami room, and participated in drinking parties. However, he would drink if we poured him sake, but he would never talk to us himself. Even when I played the flute, I didn’t try to match the sound with the people around me. I knew that he would eventually quit because he didn’t fit in with the people around him.

The vacations continued, and when he quit, there was no greeting from him. His father came to him with a bottle of sake and apologized, saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ and he had to leave the group. It was like he gradually faded out and I lost contact with him.

It seems that Aoki’s dog was the one he allowed into his life.

“I often saw him riding his bicycle and walking his white medium-sized dog at a fairly high speed around 7 p.m. after he came home from his orchard job. I think he was giving his dog a lot of love because he didn’t hang out with people. I once saw him riding his bike and letting his dog run around.

Aoki is believed to have had no particular troubles at home. He killed two women who were out for a walk because he “thought they were making fun of him, saying he was ‘all alone. He may have developed a sense of isolation and paranoia due to his tenuous relationship with his surroundings. The police are investigating Aoki’s daily activities in detail.