
Mainichi: Cop dies after shooting self in head in police box
A Tokyo police officer died Wednesday after shooting himself in the head in an apparent suicide, police said. At around 9 a.m., the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) received an emergency call from a passer-by reporting that a police officer was lying on the floor of a police box in front of JR Tokyo Station in Chiyoda-ku, bleeding from the head. The unconscious officer was rushed to a hospital where he later died. He has been identified as Yasumasa Onishi, 32, a sergeant with Marunouchi Police Station who was transferred to the police box on Thursday last week. Onishi was holding a gun when he was found collapsed, leading MPD investigators to suspect that he shot himself in the head in a bid to commit suicide.