U.S. murder suspect went to pachinko parlor, then met girls after crime

A U.S. solider was arrested for allegedly killing a Japanese taxi driver in Yokosuka on March 19. According to police, the suspect, Navy seaman Olatunboson Ugbogu, 22, who is a Nigerian national, seems to have gone drinking with his Japanese female friends after the alleged murder.

Police say Ugbogu went to a pachinko parlor near the station to wash bloodstains out of his clothes, and then went to a nightlife area just three minutes walk from the crime scene.

A taxi driver, who picked up him at Shioiri Station in Yokosuka, said, “He was covering his face with the jacket hood. He was with two beautiful Japanese girls in their 20s. The girls were wearing very flashy outfits and miniskirts.” He says Ugbogu didn’t talk at all but just kept his arms crossed in the taxi. “He didn’t look serious, not what you’d expect from a man who was supposed to have killed someone. I smelled alcohol on his breath. When they were getting out of the taxi, he didn’t pay. The two girls said ‘Money, Money,’ but he ignored them. So, the girls finally paid the taxi fare.”

A police investigator says Ugbogu was staying with a Japanese girl that night. The knife he used to allegedly kill the taxi driver was one he had stolen from another Japanese female friend’s house. Police believe Ugbogu has several Japanese girlfriends. (Translated by Taro Fujimoto)

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UnagiDon at 10:23 AM JST - 10th April

**"Blackanese" **

What's the comparable term for suburban white kids who go in for the whole gangsta image?
CMEANDU26 at 10:27 AM JST - 10th April

tyedyed: I blame it on MTV and the stupid Blacanese girls who watch it and want to be with the hip hop thug types they see on the screen. Everybody wants to be like a star but run when they go around stabbing taxi drivers.

What are you talking about? You must really be upset that you’re not getting any play. Girls will like who they like. Some like what they see in a video. Some don't but you can't blame a culture for what happened here. So it seems like everyone is blaming hip hop or blacks for what happened here. What does the enjoyment of music or a certain style have to do with killing a person? I mean I don't blame Japanese Television or the Japanese culture when a mother kills her child. Or a child pushes a man on to the train tracks. I was taught that we blame that person not a culture. But the funny part to me is that people seem to be more upset that the younger Japanese generation is embracing the hip hop culture over their own. Why that is I don't know. But don't make general statements about a culture and put the blame on them. You should spend more time educating them on why they should embrace their own culture.
tyedyed at 10:55 AM JST - 10th April

UnagiDon at 10:23 AM JST - 10th April

**"Blackanese" ** What's the comparable term for suburban white kids who go in for the whole gangsta image?

I was told the term blacanese by some friends of mine who are black and told me that it is very easy to spot the girls who like them by the way they look and dress. Anyone who has been in Japan for more than a week knows it as well. Those same friends also told me the term you are refering to for the white suburban kids is a Reverse Oreo or RO(also called RoYo's like the kids toy YoYo) because its sounds like Yo, the catch phrase they say in every sentence, like now you know, yo.

CMEANDU26 at 10:27 AM JST - 10th April What are you talking about? You must really be upset that you’re not getting any play. Girls will like who they like.

I wasn't complaining about anything just making an honest observation from what I have seen. I get plenty so I don't have to worry about that. You are right that they like who they like. I also like who I like.

I'm not blaming Hip hop in the least for this, if that were true I would have to get rid of all my hip hop Cd's before I turn into a killer. I blame Olatunboson Ugbogu and him alone for his actions. The fact that he can't separate real life from a screen or video or whatever he is claiming made him do it this week is for the judge to work out. I hope he pays and pays dearly for all of the trouble he has caused all of the good people that are in Japan.
japanyesterday at 02:01 PM JST - 10th April

tyedyed: where are you and the other bashers getting the info that hip hop music is the cause of ugubu's actions? you said youre not blaming hip hop but you go on to say that he cant separate real life from screen or video, are you saying that what he saw on a "screen or video" lead him to do what he did? anyway more ruthless men have lived before tv or video was ever invented. After a crime, everyone wants to be detectives and analysts but at the end of the day no one knew what lead the guy to do what he did. black male commit a crime and everything from his race to the clothes he wears is brough up, white man commit a crime and its just another man with problems.....
tyedyed at 04:05 PM JST - 10th April

Each person should be held accountable for their own actions. It is a shame that so many people think that speaking about what they see on a daily basis is somehow bashing. I personally have nothing against any form of music except maybe yodeling. If you saw my CD collection you would know that.
I don’t know Olatunboson Ugbogu and can only hope that nobody follows in his footsteps. Who knows what made him do what he did, only he can answer that and that is changing from moment to moment. Voices in his head, how convenient. His actions before and after the fact show nothing but the fact he is a calculating cold blooded person guilty of premeditated murder.
The point I was trying to make about hip hop is that it is stupid for anyone to think that listening to music can make you want to kill someone. Guess it got lost in translation.
Loki520 at 05:38 PM JST - 10th April

Actually, there IS a pachinko parlor over in that area. There is one at the Daiei, and if you exit Shiori and turn LEFT there are a couple of them.

ROBIN HOOD.... I have to agree with the majority if your 8:29 post. It's the reason retirement was so easy to accept and has been completely enjoyable.
BlackTieAffair at 09:09 PM JST - 10th April

Seaman Olatunboson Ugbogu should have jumped off the Yokohama Bay bridge instead of acting like a fool on the evening in question.
Alphaape at 10:39 PM JST - 10th April

UnagiDon, The term you are looking "whiggers."
CMEANDU26 at 07:46 AM JST - 11th April

What the hell is a "whigger"? Where do people make this crap up at?
the_sicilian at 05:22 PM JST - 11th April

What the hell is a "whigger"? Where do people make this crap up at?

This has actually been around for a long time. It basically meant any white person, mostly male, who dress and act black. Personally, I don't care, people are people. Whatever. Back on topic.

The fact that J-girls hung with this guy because of image is normal. A certain segment of the population here will like you because you are different. This dirt bag is responsible for his actions. There were no voices. Rubbish. He wanted to do this, for whatever reason. I mean, he stole a kitchen knife from one girl, so he obviously was planning to do more than have some "steki" somewhere. I'd like to see him get hard labor in a J-jail. Shouting at him in Japanese and eating fish heads and rice....Better than death.

Addiu
telecasterplayer at 11:51 PM JST - 11th April

This is the guy who supposedly heard "voices" telling him to stab the cab driver? And yet these voices also told him to go party for a while.
Amazing how these killers never have "voices" that tell them to put a sock in it and go back to work.
Sarge at 08:07 PM JST - 15th April

"The girls were wearing very flashy outfits"

I'll bet they had those sparkly things on them.
greenteaonsens at 10:12 AM JST - 17th April

Why would any Japanese woman throw herself at this piece of garbage? Women are unbelievable sometimes.
ThePunisher at 07:26 AM JST - 18th April

Umm I guess the women didn't know. Well, he said he heard voices in his head. That is a lie most people say that for they could be sent to a mental institution instead of jail. But I think he knew well what he was doing. Maybe is too much drugs and stories that affected his head. Well, no matter which reason a crime is against the law both in Earth and in Heaven. There's no excuse live through what you did. I feel sad for the parents of this man. The whole family must be shocked.
BlackTieAffair at 12:44 AM JST - 19th April

Seaman Olatunboson Ugbogu AKA "Kenny" is rather interesting character because he was a low life from the start. When you peel the onion back an look at events prior to this scandal we can see that leadership failed for sure. The young Kenny had numerous issues like identity theft, passing bad checks and was on his way to court martial. The COWPENS leadership failed to take care of this individual before he could climb down a mooring line, go UA and wreck havoc in the community.

At the end of the day the Navy has to take responsibility for its knuckleheads......this is nothing new.