The perpetrator
Yasuhisa Sugiura, 49, was a government employee in Japan's second-largest city Osaka. According to police, he was involved in a "troubled marriage" with a 48-year-old woman.Shooting
On 12 January 2010, Sugiura went to the ''Ii-chan'' bar to discuss a divorce with his mother-in-law, 66-year-old Yoshiko Tanaka ( ja, 田中 美子, links=no), who would subsequently become one of his victims. The bar was open for business and had other customers inside; Sugiura's wife was possibly one of them. Sugiura then departed. Sugiura came back armed with a rifle and opened fire at approximately 20:00 that evening, killing three people. Two of Sugiura's targets — the mother-in-law and a 23-year-old bar employee named Tatsuya Fukui ( ja, 福井 達也, links=no) — died immediately; a third, 49-year-old bar landlord Hiroto Uehara ( ja, 上原 浩人, links=no), died shortly thereafter. Witnesses described the rifle shots as "three or four blunt bangs"; a pool of blood was left in front of the bar. Sugiura then exited the bar and shot himself in the abdomen, killing himself.References
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