A 25-year-old man was served a fresh arrest warrant Thursday on suspicion of murder in a stabbing spree Wednesday in which one woman was killed and five others, including the man's parents, were wounded in Sashiki, Okinawa Prefecture, police said.
Police arrested the man at the scene Wednesday evening on suspicion of carrying out the stabbing spree using a kitchen knife and a sickle.
A police investigation determined that the suspect first stabbed his parents, who run a tofu shop, at their home, and later launched a random attack in the streets in the southern Okinawa town, killing Haru Shiroma, 68, and injuring three other people, including two children.
Shiroma was stabbed several times near a bus stop and pronounced dead an hour after being rushed to a nearby hospital.