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Police in Japan are continuing to investigate Shinzo Abe's assassination following the arrest of suspect Tetsuya Yamagami at the scene moments after the fatal shooting last Friday.Yamagami said he held a grudge against a certain group, to which he believed Abe had ties, and which his mother had been involved with, according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News Agency, citing police.
Investigators said a vehicle believed to be Yamagami's car was seen on security cameras close to where Thursday's test shooting reportedly took place. Police refused to name the group, and the security footage has not been made public.The suspect's mother was a member of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, widely known as the Unification Church, said Tomihiro Tanaka, the church's Japan office chairman, in a statement on Monday.
Photos from the scene on Friday show what appeared to be a weapon with two cylindrical metal barrels wrapped in black tape.
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