Abe's suspected shooter used a handmade gun

Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected of shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being apprehended in Nara City. - Yomiuri Shimbun

TOKYO: Japanese police have arrested Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, a former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), on suspicion of shooting former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Friday (July 8).

According to local media, Yamagami had retrieved what appeared to be a handmade gun from the vicinity where the former prime minister was shot in Nara.