The first details from the tragic public stabbing of Japanese livestreamer Ai Mogami have surfaced after initial police reports.

Ai Mogami (real name Airi Sato) was stabbed to death while livestreaming around the Takadanobaba station in Tokyo around 10 AM Japan time on March 11th when a man, now identified as Kenichi Takano, approached her and attacked her without a word. Ai was 22 and Takano is 42.

Shortly after the attack Takano said that he had a problem with her and that he did not intend to kill her. Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Investigation Division 1 said that Ai was stabbed over thirty times before going unconscious. She was pronounced dead at a local hospital later.

Tokyo Police have been interrogating Takano and report that he took a train from his home in Oyama City (Tochigi Prefecture) and watched Ai’s livestream to figure out she was walking around Takadanobaba station, in Shinjuku (Tokyo).

He kept watching her livestream after getting off the train at the station and based on her footage, he identified her by the surroundings and her clothing within ten minutes. It’s believed he used a survival style knife around 5 inches long to tragically stab her to death.

Takano alleged in the police interrogation that he lent her money in excess of 2 million yen (roughly $13,530 USD). Takano’s motive for the killing is that he “felt unbearable about her earning money through livestreaming while she had not repaid the debt.”

Not long after apprehending the suspect, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department raided his home on January 13th and seized a personal computer and statements recording money transfers to Ms. Sato.