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03-21-2008, 08:41 AM
Kyodo News Service
Posted : Thursday Mar 20, 2008 18:50:25 EDT
YOKOHAMA — The U.S. military in Japan has found goods that apparently belong to a U.S. serviceman in the taxi of a driver who was fatally stabbed in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday night, Navy sources said Thursday.
Masaaki Takahashi, 61, was found dead on the driver’s seat with stab wounds in his neck in a parked taxi on a road in Yokosuka, police said.
The owner of the personal belongings is thought to be a crew member of the 7th Fleet’s warship based in Yokosuka, the sources told Kyodo News, and criminal investigators of the Navy are looking for the serviceman as a deserter.
Takahashi, an employee at the Shinagawa office of Tokyo-based taxi operator Anzen Group, was found slain with a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade stuck deeply in his neck in the taxi parked on a road in Yokosuka’s town of Shioiri about 9:20 p.m.
An autopsy shows he died from blood loss.
The police found about 62,000 yen in cash in a bag left on the driver’s seat and tens of thousands of yen in a pocket of Takahashi’s clothes, according to investigations.
The police suspect the last passenger of Takahashi’s taxi stabbed him and fled after a payment dispute.
The scene is in a residential area near the main gate of the Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/03/kyo_slaindriver_032008/
Posted : Thursday Mar 20, 2008 18:50:25 EDT
YOKOHAMA — The U.S. military in Japan has found goods that apparently belong to a U.S. serviceman in the taxi of a driver who was fatally stabbed in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday night, Navy sources said Thursday.
Masaaki Takahashi, 61, was found dead on the driver’s seat with stab wounds in his neck in a parked taxi on a road in Yokosuka, police said.
The owner of the personal belongings is thought to be a crew member of the 7th Fleet’s warship based in Yokosuka, the sources told Kyodo News, and criminal investigators of the Navy are looking for the serviceman as a deserter.
Takahashi, an employee at the Shinagawa office of Tokyo-based taxi operator Anzen Group, was found slain with a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade stuck deeply in his neck in the taxi parked on a road in Yokosuka’s town of Shioiri about 9:20 p.m.
An autopsy shows he died from blood loss.
The police found about 62,000 yen in cash in a bag left on the driver’s seat and tens of thousands of yen in a pocket of Takahashi’s clothes, according to investigations.
The police suspect the last passenger of Takahashi’s taxi stabbed him and fled after a payment dispute.
The scene is in a residential area near the main gate of the Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/03/kyo_slaindriver_032008/