BREAKING: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated During Speech

July 8, 2022
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WATCH: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated During Speech

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed earlier today after being shot while giving a campaign speech on a street in Japan.

Abe, 67 was believed to have been shot twice, in the chest and neck, according to police.

The former prime minister was rushed to a hospital via helicopter, where over 20 doctors attempted to keep him alive.

The assassination occurred in broad daylight and left citizens of Japan in shock, due to the low gun violence in their country.

Abe died from excessive bleeding and was pronounced dead at 5:03 p.m. local time, doctors announced during a press conference on Friday.

(Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

The doctors stated the bullet that killed the former Japanese leader was “deep enough to reach his heart,” and a team of 20 medical professionals were unable to stop the bleeding.

The former primer minister went into cardiopulmonary arrest on the site of the shooting and was rushed to the hospital while in cardiac arrest at 12:20 p.m. local time, according to medical personnel.

Doctors discovered a bullet wound to his neck and a large wound on his heart during surgery.

At the time of the shooting, Abe was delivering a speech in support of LDP candidates in Nara city ahead of the upcoming Upper House elections scheduled for Sunday.
Nara Police officers direct pedestrians and traffic near the scene where the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering his speech to support the Liberal Democratic Party’s candidate during an election campaign in Nara, Friday, July 8, 2022. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

The Suspect Used a Handmade Weapon

Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect, was detained at the scene and has admitted to shooting the former prime minister, according to police.

Yamagami used a homemade weapon in the attack and has been arrested and charged with attempted murder.

The 41-year-old suspect was questioned at the Nara Nishi police station and police reported that he is unemployed and holds hatred towards a certain group to which he thought Abe was related.

Police raided the suspect’s home at 5:17 p.m. local time and confiscated multiple handmade pistol-like weapons.

Over 90 investigators have been assigned to investigate the suspect and former prime minister’s tragic assassination.
Abe was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, holding office from 2006- 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.

He resigned in 2020 due to health reasons but remained in the public eye and appeared in the media often to discuss current affairs.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed his “deepest condolences” to former leader Abe, saying he “was a personal friend, with whom he spent a lot of time.”

President Biden released a statement saying he is “stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their talks at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Biden, who is on the first leg of his three-nation Asian tour, met Abe, whose government is pressing the U.S. to more actively take Japan’s side in an escalating dispute over China’s new air defense zone above a set of contested islands in the East China Sea. (AP Photo/Toru Yamanaka, Pool)

The U.S. president has worked closely with Abe and said that his assassination is “a tragedy for Japan and all who knew him.”

“While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it. The United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief,” said President Biden.

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