Man held over shooting death of fellow hunter during monkey cull

Sunday 23rd August, 11:15 PM JST

CHIBA —

Police have arrested a member of a hunters’ group on suspicion of professional negligence after he mistakenly shot to death a fellow hunter Sunday during a cull of monkeys.

Suminori Maeda, a 51-year-old resident of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, shot and fatally injured Masayoshi Murakoshi, 72, also from Kimitsu, around 9:30 a.m. Sunday in a mountain forest. Murakoshi was immediately taken to hospital but was later pronounced dead, police said. Maeda told investigators that he shot Murakoshi after mistaking him for a monkey. At the time, Murakoshi was rushing to join other members of the group on hearing that monkeys had been sighted, police said.

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mindovermatter at 08:15 PM JST - 24th August

At least there weren't any monkeys killed in the oyaji cull!

I think they could sure do a hell of a lot better job of thinning the herd of these oyaji's running the streets today!

Maybe we need to declare open season on them too...?