"Snack" DRIVE-BY! 4 dead...

[Taro Toporific]

DRIVE-BY SHOOT OUT: It's all the buzz in the Sunday morning TV news...three of the people gunned down were unrelated bystanders.

Gunmen Kill Four, Wound Two in Tokyo Bar
Two helmeted gunmen opened fire in a bar near Tokyo, killing four people and seriously wounding two others, police said Sunday.
Police said they suspected the shooting was motivated by a gang dispute.

[tokyojoe]

This isn`t their usual style. The Yaks generally try not to involve civilians. I wonder if these guys were Chinese gangs?

[Taro Toporific]

This isn`t their usual style. The Yaks generally try not to involve civilians. I wonder if these guys were Chinese gangs?

The TV shows went out of the way with interviews saying that the people shot were futsu regular folk and not crime related (may it was 100% per day "loan*" related).

Read a better article on the MDN Gunmen kill 3 in gangland bar shooting

The two men, wearing white, full-face helmets, fatally shot a former underground criminal group member ...They then indiscriminately fired a dozen bullets inside the Katsu bar in Maebashi, killing three customers and seriously injuring two others, and fled the scene on foot, Maebashi-Higashi Police Station officers said.
<snip>
... the bar is known as a gathering place for organized criminal group members and Goto, 55, is a regular customer.
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The late night shooting spree sent panic through the quiet residential area of Maebashi with most of the local residents saying what happened was "unbelievable."
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One of the victims was Hatsuko Satori, 66...

*See Metropolitan Police Department targets crime-linked moneylending

[GuyJean]

NHK reported on the shooting, and flashed pictures of the 3 'regular' people killed on the screen, with their names and ages. But no picture of the killed gang member!!.. WHY? Are they afraid it might expose the other non-dead members in that gang?... WTF?. Expose those sleaze!

Gotta love spineless media!

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

Gotta love spineless media!

I'm sure it was a question of "privacy" (in Katakana).

Survivor vents anger over gang shooting
Yomiuri Shimbun 28 Jan

...Kunio Goto, 55, the former gang member targeted by the gunmen, entered the bar at about 11 p.m. The employee knew Goto as he was a regular customer.

[GuyJean]

2 Killed in Gang Attack in Mie Prefecture
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030128wo23.htm

First-aid workers treated a young man with a head wound at the scene, but he ran away before police could question him, the police said.

Fuckin' whaaa ha, ha.. Keystone cops, at it again!.. DOH

"To Protect and Serve.. Myself"

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

2 Killed in Gang Attack in Mie Prefecture
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20030128wo23.htm

First-aid workers treated a young man with a head wound at the scene, but he ran away before police could question him, the police said.

Fuckin' whaaa ha, ha.. Keystone cops, at it again!.. DOH
"To Protect and Serve.. Myself"
GJ

Ha, ha

But seriously...
In Japan, those who render assistence are considered obvious suspects by the cops---The cops "logic" is only a guilty person would want to help.

---Taro, the EMT medic who has been held several times in the police torture-cell for providing First Aid