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Japanese man suspected of stabbing 19 patients to death at care home believed he was being targeted by gangsters

The 27-year-old suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage last July at a facility for the mentally disabled told police he sped up his plans for the attack after hearing he was being pursued by a gangster, investigative sources said on Wednesday.

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'I can wipe out a total of 470 disabled individuals’: read disturbing letter by man accused of mass stabbing at Japanese care facility

This is the letter from Satoshi Uematsu, the young Japanese man who went on a stabbing rampage, killing 19 people Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired. Months earlier, he reportedly gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan.