Abe shooting

Suspect in Abe shooting used a handmade gun, NHK reports

From CNN

Police have arrested Tetsuya Yamagami, a Nara resident in his 40s, in relation to the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to public broadcaster NHK, citing police sources.

The man did not attempt to run away, NHK reported. He is being held for questioning at Nara Nishi police station.

Video aired by NHK shows the moments surrounding Abe's collapse, with a loud bang eliciting shouts before police wrestled a man to the ground near where the former Prime Minister was standing.

The suspect in the shooting of Shinzo Abe on Friday used a gun that he appears to have made himself, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK, citing police. 

The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, is a Nara resident in his 40s, NHK reported, citing police sources.

Friday’s shooting of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will change the country "forever," a security expert said.

“It’s not only rare, but it’s really culturally unfathomable,” Nancy Snow, Japan director of the International Security Industrial Council, told CNN. “The Japanese people can’t imagine having a gun culture like we have in the United States. This is a speechless moment. I really feel at a loss for words. I pray for the best for the former prime minister.

“What this will do to the national psyche of a people who move about freely and have a social contract with each other, that they will not resort to this type of violence … I am devastated thinking about that.”

Snow said Japan has been an “oasis” and had “shown what it can teach the US about guns.”