On-duty officer apparently shoots himself at Tokyo police station

Monday 22nd September, 03:29 PM JST

TOKYO —

A police officer apparently shot himself at a police station in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward while he was on duty early Monday morning, police said. At around 5:45 a.m. Monday, an officer at the Shimura police station heard the sound of a gunshot from a bathroom and found Daisuke Orihara, 26, collapsed and bleeding from the head inside one of the stalls. Orihara died later at a hospital.

Police said they are treating the case as suicide, although no suicide note has been found, and are investigating the background and cause of the incident. Orihara was on duty for 24 hours until 9 a.m. Monday and had been with his colleagues until shortly before he shot himself with his own gun, the police said. Orihara apparently lost several traffic violation tickets on Sunday and was looking for them, but they have not been found, police said.

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