Some reports said he held a grudge after being fired from his job at the facility. A Japanese man has hacked 19 disabled people to death and injured 26 at a disability center near Tokyo at which he used to work . Satoshi Uematsu , 26 , is reported to have said that he wanted " to get rid of the disabled from this world . " Reports suggest that he was hospitalised after writing a threatening letter to Tadamori Oshima , the speaker of the lower house of Japan 's parliament , in which he called for euthanasia of disabled people . He later turned himself into police at the scene of the crime .
A Japanese man has hacked 19 disabled people to death and injured 26 at a disability center near Tokyo at which he used to work . Satoshi Uematsu , 26 , is reported to have said that he wanted " to get rid of the disabled from this world . " Reports suggest that he was hospitalised after writing a threatening letter to Tadamori Oshima , the speaker of the lower house of Japan 's parliament , in which he called for euthanasia of disabled people . He later turned himself into police at the scene of the crime .