Japanese streamer Ai Mogami was fatally stabbed live on air by a viewer.
The young woman was broadcasting a walk through Tokyo’s Shinjuku district on the Japanese platform Whowatch. Her stream had 6,500 viewers when a man, approximately 40 years old, attacked her and inflicted multiple knife wounds. After Ai Mogami collapsed, he reportedly asked her, “Are you dead yet?”
The suspect was apprehended shortly after the attack. He told police he considers himself a hater of the streamer, but the exact motive for his crime is still under investigation. Unconfirmed reports in the media suggest the attacker might have been a donor who had given a large sum of money and then wanted it back.