Name Hideo Murai | Education Osaka University | |
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Assassinated April 23, 1995, Japan Born 5 December 1958 (age 36), Suita, Osaka, Japan Died 23 April 1995(aged 36), Tokyo, Japan Similar Tomomitsu Niimi, Hiroyuki Jo, Fumihiro Joyu | ||
Hideo Murai (村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958 - April 23, 1995) was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder.
Death
Murai was mortally wounded when an ethnic Korean man named Hiroyuki Jo (徐裕行 Jo Hiroyuki), a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi (the largest organized crime Yakuza group in Japan), stabbed Murai repeatedly, in the presence of 10 police officers and about a hundred reporters recording the events and broadcasting them live. His attacker didn't attempt to flee and was peacefully arrested on the spot. Murai died in an ambulance.
References
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