Japanese prisoner serving a sentence for murdering wife and son in Hawaii dies in US prison: reports

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) – A Japanese inmate who murdered a woman and her son in Hawaii in 1994 died Monday after being stabbed by his cellmate in a state prison, local media reported.

Raita Fukusaku, 59, who returned to his home country after the incident, became the first Japanese suspect in a murder case to be extradited to the United States under a bilateral agreement.

He was sentenced to life in prison by a Honolulu court in 1995 for fatally shooting fortune teller Kototome Fujita, 56, and her son Goro, 20, in the state.

The reports, citing police investigators, said Fukusaku was found bleeding from the neck after being attacked with a weapon by his 38-year-old cellmate at the Hawaii correctional facility.