The Yomiuri Shimbun
A 21-year-old unemployed man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing his high school age girlfriend in Chuo Ward, Saitama.
According to police, Hiroyuki Ishii allegedly stabbed the 17-year-old student in the neck and back with a fruit knife, injuring her slightly, near the girl's house in the city at about midnight Tuesday.
The pair had reportedly been quarreling about ending the relationship.
Ishii, from Kawagoe in the prefecture, was quoted by the police as saying, "I was going to kill myself after killing her."
The girl, in the second year of high school, fled to her house, and the police arrested Ishii near the crime scene after receiving a call from the girl's family.
(Jan. 11, 2007)