Man falls to death from 14th floor of condo, hitting woman passerby

Thursday 17th September, 04:14 PM JST

OSAKA —

A man fell to his death from the 14th floor of an apartment building in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, hitting a woman pedestrian below, on Thursday morning. Police said they received a call from a witness who saw the man fall at around 8:40 a.m. When they arrived on the scene, the man was already dead, while the 56-year-old woman suffered a fracture to her left shoulder.

Police said the man, who has not yet been identified, was in his 40s, and they are trying to determine if he committed suicide or fell accidentally. No suicide note was found, they said.

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tuneintokyo at 09:48 PM JST - 17th September

A guy killed someone in Ikebukuro jumping to his death a couple years ago. Horrible to kill someone while checking yourself out early.
hanadecaka at 10:03 PM JST - 17th September

If depression comes nobody can stop like this accident,society must be more open and enjoyable smiling faces when walk in the street.People must be more freindly each other.
Betting at 10:21 PM JST - 17th September

She was incredibly lucky. A few centimetres to the wrong side and she might have ended up dead too!
taisho999 at 11:11 PM JST - 17th September

It's raining men.
usaexpat at 11:17 PM JST - 17th September

That sucks for the woman who got hit. Just minding her business and someone trying to pwn themselves lands on her.
BurakuminDes at 11:45 PM JST - 17th September

It's raining men.

I shouldn't laugh...but that's GOLD!
Triumvere at 11:49 PM JST - 17th September

Well, that will give you nightmares...
DentShop at 02:34 AM JST - 18th September

Sakai represent. My hood making the headlines.

He didnt know the Olympic long jump is measured horizontally not vertically.
Fadamor at 04:39 AM JST - 18th September

OK, full conspiracy theory mode: ON...

The guy was dragged to the roof and tossed off just as the woman was walking by to kill HER. Then the guy calls the police as the "witness" to make it not look like a murder. He gets back to the ground level and is dismayed to discover she is not dead, but only injured.

(I have GOT to stop watching CSI!)
jason6 at 09:42 AM JST - 18th September

Fadamor: stop hitting the crack. do u know how difficult it is to hit even a slowly moving object with a dropped one from 14 floors up? wind, distance, inexperience, the weight of a body.. nevermind
GJDailleult at 10:45 AM JST - 18th September

In the Ikebukuro case it was actually a woman who jumped and killed a male pedestrian. Took of her shoes and placed them neatly too, but didn't bother to take the time to think about the people walking below. Anyways, very lucky woman in this case if she only fractured her shoulder.
Manny3 at 01:55 PM JST - 18th September

Man! I'm only about 10 minutes from the building. Unfortunately, I was at work at the time. Would have been interesting to see that.
Manny3 at 01:58 PM JST - 18th September

It also seem pretty bad that I'm almost use to hearing about people topping themselves here. I didn't hear too much of it in the U.S. or Australia.
ka_chan at 02:20 AM JST - 19th September

I thought Japan was a polite society? What happened to look before you leap? Or, maybe it would have been considered rude for him to say,"doitte, doitte, doitte..." Sorry...

Unlike the old days, you don't think of others when you kill yourself today. But then why does the police consider this an accident or suicide and not consider homocide or attempted-murder suicide?
SiouxGirl at 11:50 AM JST - 21st September

Oh, how awful. Poor woman. I'd be traumatized. What's even worse is when people see the jumper and enourage him or her to jump. That happened when I used to live in Seattle. Terrible!