Kanagawa Prefectural Police headquarters (Mainichi/Akihiko Yamamoto)

       YOKOHAMA -- Kanagawa Prefectural Police are poised to arrest a 21-year-old man as early as June 28 on suspicion of stabbing an 18-year-old man to death on a street in Kamakura in March after a drug deal row, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned.

       According to investigators, the defendant, who has been charged with confinement and other crimes, is suspected of stabbing the man from Yokohama's Seya Ward multiple times in the back and other parts of his body with a knife on March 27 on a street in Kamakura's Fueda 1-chome district. The cause of death was blood loss due to a stab wound to the heart.

       Initially, the prefectural police believed that the incident occurred when the victim and his friend warned people in a passenger car for playing loud music, leading to an argument. However, subsequent investigations revealed that the unemployed defendant, of no fixed address, and others had contacted the victim through social media before the incident to buy marijuana.

       It is believed that the defendant and others who received the marijuana tried to flee in a car without paying, and the victim and others chased after them in a car, leading to trouble on the street. The prefectural police will also investigate the details of the drug deal.

       (Japanese original by Minhyang Hong, Nao Ikeda and Mami Miyajima, Yokohama Bureau)

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