Abe Shooting Suspect 'decided To Attack Before Running Out Of Money'
Investigative sources say the suspect in the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has said he decided to carry out the attack before he ran out of money.
Yamagami Tetsuya was arrested on the spot after the shooting of Abe, who was giving a campaign speech in the western city of Nara on July 8.
Police have found that Yamagami had a grudge against the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church.
He told police that his mother had made large donations to the religious group, to which he believed Abe had close ties.
Investigative sources quoted Yamagami as saying he was possibly going to run out of money by the end of July and decided to attack his target before that happened.
Police say the suspect is believed to have had no income after he quit his job as a temporary forklift operator at a company in Osaka Prefecture in early June. Yamagami had worked for another company in Kyoto Prefecture for about a year and a half, before quitting in mid-May.
The sources also say Yamagami had debts and overdue credit card payments totaling thousands of dollars, possibly because he spent a lot of money on homemade guns and gunpowder while facing economic difficulties.