OSAKA (TR) – Two men in custody in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man in Osaka City last month have further been accused of shooting him with an air gun, police have revealed, reports Asahi Shimbun (Jan. 25).
On around December 28, Tatsuya Uesugi, 34, Ryota Nunomaki, 32, and Daichi Sakaki, 28, allegedly worked together to shoot Daisuke Okumura, 33, dozens of times in the chest and abdomen at Sakaki’s residence in Naniwa Ward.
Upon being accused of inflicting bodily injury, Uesugi and Nunomaki admitted to the allegations. However, Sakaki denied the charges. “The gun in is mine, but I didn’t use it,” he said.
Police had already accused Uesugi and Nunomaki of manslaughter. In December, the pair allegedly assaulted Okumura with water that exceeded a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius in the shower of another residence that Uesugi shared with Okumura.
