Police to arrest 3rd man in Nagasaki mayor murder probe

Police said Monday they have obtained an arrest warrant for a man in his 20s on suspicion of helping a gangster who fatally shot then Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito on April 17. The Nagasaki prefectural police said the man was a driver for the gangster, 59-year-old Tetsuya Shiroo, and is suspected of keeping a close watch on the mayor's movements at places other than an election campaign office in Nagasaki where the shooting took place.

On Sunday, police arrested 60-year-old Hiromi Ogawa, who they said acknowledged having given Shiroo a ride to the neighborhood of the scene of the attack shortly before the shooting. The 61-year-old mayor was shot twice in the back at point-blank range in front of his election campaign office on the evening of April 17 during his mayoral election campaign. He died of blood loss the following morning.