Armed man holed up in apartment, parents collect children from school

TOKYO, Japan - Parents collect their children from an elementary school located in the neighborhood of an apartment in Machida, Tokyo where a man armed with a handgun barricaded himself on April 20. He had allegedly shot a gangster to death before fleeing into the apartment and fired nine shots out into the open from the apartment. One of the shots hit a police car, but otherwise no one was hurt and no hostages appear to have been taken, the police said.

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