20-Year-Old Pop Star in Critical Condition After Being Stabbed 20 Times by Alleged Stalker
According to NBC News, Japanese pop star and college student Mayu Tomita is in critical condition after being repeatedly stabbed in the chest and neck before a performance in Tokyo on Saturday. Tomohiro Iwazaki, a 27-year-old fan, was arrested as the stabbing suspect at the scene.
Tomita became famous after she starred in an online series in 2011 called Secret Girls in which she and four other young Japanese women were "normal junior high school girls who lead secret lives as J-Pop stars," Billboard reports. She began performing live after that.
Billboard also reports Tomita alerted Iwazaki to the police as her stalker earlier this month. He'd been reportedly harassing her on Twitter and her blog about a present he sent her that she allegedly returned to him upon receiving. The man allegedly admitted to stabbing the woman, who has not yet gained consciousness. According to the Japan Times, he faces a charge of attempted murder.
Tomito wrote on her blog earlier that day she was excited about the upcoming performance.
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