A Pokémon Center employee was stabbed to death in a Tokyo shopping mall today, leading to the store closing indefinitely.
The incident occurred at the Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo in Sunshine City on the evening of March 26. The woman was in her 20s, Reuters reports. The assailant—also in his 20s, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department—stabbed the victim at 7:16pm local time before stabbing himself. Both were declared dead at a nearby hospital within an hour.
