Irrational motive pains family / Youth says he pushed man from railway platform to 'get into prison'

The platform from which Kariya was pushed is pictured
at JR Okayama Station on Wednesday.

JAPAN, OKAYAMA (yomiuri) -- The family and colleagues of a man killed by a train after being pushed off a platform at JR Okayama Station on Tuesday were further pained to learn the suspect's irrational motive.

Police have quoted the 18-year-old suspect from Daito, Osaka Prefecture, as saying: "I can go to prison if I kill somebody--it doesn't matter who."

The suspect allegedly pushed Kuniaki Kariya, 38, an Okayama prefectural government employee of Kurashiki, in the prefecture, onto the train tracks at about 11 p.m. Tuesday. full story