A 65-year-old man is believed to have killed himself with a hunting rifle Wednesday after first shooting his pet dog dead at his home in southwestern Japan, in a case in which police initially feared he had holed himself up and was a potential danger to other people.
A 65-year-old man is believed to have killed himself with a hunting rifle Wednesday after first shooting his pet dog dead at his home in southwestern Japan, in a case in which police initially feared he had holed himself up and was a potential danger to other people.
The man shot himself in the head shortly after killing his dog at the apartment in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, early in the morning, when two gunshots were heard in quick succession. The prefectural police, who initially treated the shooting around 6:10 a.m. as a case of an armed suspect holing himself up, deployed some 200 police officers around the building before finally entering it at 1:40 p.m. after the man had not responded to any calls to his home and mobile phone.
