Japan police find bullet marks near Abe assassination site

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police say they have found what they believe are several bullet marks on a building near the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination last week in western Japan, apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect’s powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Abe. Abe, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech near a crowded train station in Nara. Police and Japanese media have suggested that the suspected assassin decided to kill Abe after seeing reports about his ties to the Unification Church.