Japanese influencer Airi Sato was live streaming a series of train rides when she was murdered.
More than 6,000 people had tuned into Sato riding the rails on March 11.
Just before 10 am, local time, she screamed.
The phone and selfie stick Sato used while was murdered lays at the crime scene.© TBS Television news screengrab.
The phone fell to the ground.
A man loomed into frame.
Are you dead yet?
The man was Kenji Takano, a 42-year-old follower of Sato.
The attack happened near Takadanobaba Station, a station that links commercial districts in Tokyo.
According to Takano, that information led him right to her.
I looked for where she was on the day while viewing her real-time streaming.
The police said that Takano used a knife to stab Sato in the head, neck, and torso.
Sato survived the assault but died after getting to the hospital.
Takano told police that he did it because she owed him money.
Sato worked at a restaurant where the man regularly ate.
I made up my mind to attack her as she wouldnt give my money back, he said.
Sato streamed under the pseudonym Ai Mogami, which is also the name of a voice actress in Japan.
Streamers often face threats of violence, and though outright attacks are rare, they do happen.
Last November, a man attacked two students in China during a livestream andcut offone of their hands.
Also last year, a South Korean YouTuber in his 50s killed a rivalduring a livestreamin Busan.
The murdererthanked the courtafter it gave him a life sentence.
On March 2, famed streamer Kaitlyn Amouranth Siragusa live tweeted a home invasion.
The attack ended, she said, when her husbandshot one of them.
Houston police are still investigating the attack.
In Japan, Sato streamed the attack on WhoWatch.
The video has been recorded and is being passed around other places on the internet now.
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