Masahiro Kanagawa

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Masahiro Kanagawa (金川真大 Kanagawa Masahiro) is a Japanese video gamer who went on a stabbing spree in the city of Tsuchiura on March 23, 2008, which left a 27-year-old man dead and seven others wounded. Police arrested Kanagawa, then 24, who was wanted in a earlier slaying of a 72-year-old man. The man told the investigators that he "just wanted to kill anyone". The suspect, who carried two knives, stabbed the 27-year-old man to death and hurt at least seven others, while the victims were walking along a short hallway connecting a railway station. The 27-year-old died as he was being rushed to a nearby hospital.^[1] Police said that Kanagawa liked games and that he hid out in Akihabara while escaping.^[2] A part of mass media claimed that he murdered people under the influence of Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword, though their claim was apparently nonsense.^[3]