IPOH – Police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred in front of a house in the Sitiawan residential area, Manjung, yesterday.
Perak police chief Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said a man called police at 1.07pm yesterday to inform them about the incident.
“Police rushed to the scene and according to the house owner, who is staying with his wife and two children, his wife had heard an explosion outside the house earlier in the morning, but ignored it.
“At about 12.45pm, the complainant (the man who called police) went out of his house to collect some items and noticed damage to the rear window of the victim’s car, and then saw a bullet casing under the vehicle,” he said in a statement here today.
Yusri said a team from the Forensic Division (D10) of the Perak police contingent headquarters’ Criminal Investigation Department was at the scene and found a hole in the rear window of the victim’s car, believed to be from gunshots, as well as a bullet casing.
He said police viewed footage from a nearby closed-circuit television camera and saw two male suspects on a Yamaha Y15 motorcycle, which had no registration number, with one of them seen firing a shot at the victim’s car.
“The suspect was then seen trying to fire another shot towards the front of the house, but the gun was believed to have failed, and the suspects then fled,” he said.
He said police were investigating the case under Section 8 of the Firearms (Increased Penalty) Act 1971. and urged those with information about the incident to contact senior investigating officer Mohd Azalan Ab Karim of the Manjung district police headquarters at 019-392-7837 or the nearest police station. – Bernama, October 1, 2022
