Feb 03 (Japan Today) - Police in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, are searching for a man who is believed to be behind three air gun shootings in the city, which have so far injured two elderly men.
According to police, at around 5:55 a.m. on Thursday, a 78-year-old man was taking a walk in Nagata Ward when a car approached him and a man sitting in the front passenger seat aimed an air gun at him and shot him several times. Two plastic bullets hit the elderly man’s face, leaving him bleeding from the mouth and cheek, Sankei Shimbun reported.
The injured man told police that the shooter looked to be in his late teens and was in a yellowish car, which was driven by another man.
In a separate case on the same day, at around 5:10 a.m., a woman reported to police that she heard what seemed like gunshots while she was walking along a street in Chuo Ward. Plastic bullet fragments were found at the scene, police said.
At 6:30 a.m., another man, 70, was shot by an air gun in the face while waiting for the bus at a bus stop in Hyogo ward. The bullet broke the lens in his glasses, police said.
Police believe that the same man is behind all the incidents.
Source: ANNnewsCH
