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 TOKYO (AP) - The gangster arrested in the shooting death of Nagasaki's mayor visited city offices more than 30 times seeking compensation for car damage caused by a pothole, Japanese media reported Thursday.
Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back outside a train station Tuesday evening and died hours later. Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Japan's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, was captured at the scene and admitted to the attack.
Police believe Shiroo harbored a grudge against Ito over unheeded claims for damage to his car when he drove into a hole at a public works construction site in 2003, the Asahi and Yomiuri newspapers and the Kyodo news agency reported.
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