Attempted assassination of Susumu Takajima

On June 11, 2013, an attempt to assassinate Susumu Takajima was plotted. While Takajima was speaking at the Drillimation booth at E3 2013 in Los Angeles, California, the perpetrator pulled out a gun and tried to shoot Susumu Takajima but failed and was subdued five minutes after he fired the first shot. No fatalities were reported, but the Los Angeles Convention Center had to strengthen their security to prevent future incidents like this from occurring. The assassination attempt had caused a scare on internet communities, including imageboards such as 4chan, and was even the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary.

The perpetrator, who was part of Team Crimson, was accused of disrupting a speech and was charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm at a convention. The perpetrator had a long history of mentality disorders and he plotted to kill Takajima to stop him from trying to release Lucky Star: Lords of Shadow 2. On June 18, 2013, the Crimsonite plead guilty to both charges and was sentenced to two years in prison. He was released in 2015.

Assassination attempt
On the first day of E3 2013, Takajima announced to the public that Drillimation was preparing to release Lucky Star: Lords of Shadow 2 in Q1 2014. The Crimsonite was not happy about this, and within minutes, he pulled out a gun and fired a shot at Takajima's podium. Minor damage was inflicted to the podium, but Takajima was not injured. Takajima's wife, Kagami Ochiai, and programmer Kenjirou Nasaya escorted him to safety.

The Crimsonite had been planning to murder Takajima for almost a year, as early as Fall 2012. When the Crimsonite learned that Takajima would be at E3 that year, he immediately purchased tickets to the event. He also held tickets to an upcoming anime convention in Atlanta, Georgia that Takajima was planning to appear at if he did not get a chance to kill Takajima there.