On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.

Tetsuya Yamagami (Japanese: 山上 徹也, Hepburn: Yamagami Tetsuya, born 10 September 1980) is a Japanese man who has admitted to assassinating Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, on 8 July 2022. [5]

Jan 13, 2023 · Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, led by police officers, enters a police station in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2023.

Jan 13, 2023 · Nara prosecutors’ office said in a statement it had indicted Tetsuya Yamagami on murder and firearms charges after Abe was shot dead on July 8 while giving a campaign speech on a street in...

Jan 13, 2023 · TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday.

Jul 9, 2022 · Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has admitted to shooting Abe, Nara Nishi police said during a news conference on Friday. He was taken to the Nara District Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday morning, and is...

Jan 13, 2023 · Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly shot and killed Shinzo Abe in early July but underwent a months-long mental evaluation that prosecutors say showed he's fit to stand trial.

Jul 8, 2022 · Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot twice at a political campaign event. He was in the process of giving a speech when a gunman attacked him from behind. This is...

Jan 13, 2023 · Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of killing Japan’s Shinzo Abe, is led to a police station Tuesday. TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former...

Shinzo Abe was born on 21 September 1954 to a prominent political family in Shinjuku, Tokyo. [1] ... The assassin approached Abe from behind and fired two shots using an improvised firearm. The first shot missed and prompted Abe to turn around, at which point a second shot was fired, hitting Abe in the right front of the neck and the left upper ...