Moment when Shinzo Abe falls to the ground after being shot 1:03
(CNN) --
The death of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being investigated as a murder case, Nara-nishi police said Friday.
The suspect in the murder, Yamagami Tetsuya, admitted to shooting him, police said.
Abe died at the age of 67 after being shot during a speech on Friday in Nara, doctors treating him confirmed.
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According to police, the shooting suspect, Yamagami Tetsuya, a 41-year-old unemployed man, said he hated a certain group, with which he believed Abe was associated.
The suspect was detained near the scene of the shooting in Nara, western Japan.
They recovered what appears to be a homemade weapon.
Ninety investigators are dedicated to the case, police said.
Police searched the suspect's apartment at 5:17 p.m. local time, adding that several hand-made gun-like items were seized during the raid.
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Yamagami Tetsuya has admitted shooting the former prime minister, police said at a news conference on Friday.
Shinzo Abe's murder took place in broad daylight on a street in the Japanese city of Nara, a regional capital east of Osaka.
Abe delivered a speech in support of the candidates of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) ahead of the upcoming elections to the Upper House, scheduled for this Sunday.
He planned to go next to Kyoto and then to Saitama prefecture, neighboring the capital, Tokyo.
Abe died of excessive bleeding and the bullet that killed him was "deep enough to reach his heart," doctors said.
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