Hideo Murai


Hideo Murai was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder.

Death

Murai was mortally wounded when an ethnic Korean man named Hiroyuki Jo, a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, stabbed Murai repeatedly, in the presence of 10 police officers and about a hundred reporters recording the events and broadcasting them live.
His attacker didn't attempt to flee and was peacefully arrested on the spot. Murai died in an ambulance.