2ND LD: 3 stabbed over noise in Fukuoka+.FUKUOKA, Nov. 29 Kyodo (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : UPDATING WITH NEW DETAILS) A 69-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of stabbing three people with a kitchen knife Tuesday night in Fukuoka because of noise the three and their friends were apparently making, police said. The police said Yoshimichi Mineta, a peddler peddler or hawker, itinerant vendor of small goods. In rural America peddlers carried their packs or drove a horse and cart from door to door. , stabbed Eiko Tashiro, 53, Teruki Imamura, 29, and his live-in girlfriend, Chiemi Tomotani, 37, in the chest and abdomen at their apartment in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward at around 10:30 p.m. Mineta, arrested on suspicion of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. , told police, ''I did it after arguing over noise'' allegedly coming from Tashiro's residence late at night, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the police. Tashiro, the couple and several others were having a party when they quarreled with the suspect, the police said. |
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