Aichi Prefectural Police headquarters (Mainichi)

       NAGOYA -- A 14-year-old boy who stabbed a fellow student to death at a junior high school in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on Nov. 24 had called the victim out to the hallway shortly before the deadly attack, sources close to the investigation revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun Nov. 25.

       Aichi Prefectural Police suspect that the 14-year-old held strong intentions to kill the victim, also of the same age, and premeditated the attack, which took place at a municipal junior high school in the city of Yatomi on the morning of Nov. 24. The prefectural police are investigating the details behind the case.

       According to the investigative sources, the third-year student brought the knife -- with a roughly 20-centimeter blade -- to the school by hiding it in his bag on the morning of Nov. 24. He called the other student out to the corridor outside a classroom for third-year students on the second floor of the school building, before stabbing him in the abdomen. The stab wounds reportedly reached the victim's abdominal artery and internal organs and penetrated his liver. The victim died from hemorrhagic shock.

       The assailant was quoted as telling investigators that he purchased the knife online.

       The two students belonged to separate classes. The school has a rule barring students from entering classrooms other than those to which they are assigned, according to the investigative sources and others. As the school was set to hold a reading session in each class from 8:10 a.m. that day, the suspect is thought to have called the victim out to the corridor shortly before the session, and attacked him.

       The prefectural police referred the perpetrator to the Nagoya District Public Prosecutors Office on charges of murder on the morning of Nov. 25.

       (Japanese original by Ayaka Morita, Nagoya News Center)

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