GEORGE TOWN – Adam Jaafar, better known as Private Adam, died yesterday at Penang Hospital due to a lung infection.
His sister, Hawa, 56, said her brother died at about 9am while receiving treatment.
“Before this, my brother was fine. He was healthy except for the occasional fever, which is normal...the only thing was that he was admitted into the hospital last week, and the medical examination showed he had a lung infection,” she said here today.
She said his remains were buried at the Datuk Keramat Muslim Cemetery after zohor prayers. He was 57.
Hawa said the family was saddened by her brother’s death, but has accepted it as fate and prayed that his soul be blessed and placed among the pious.
She said Adam, the eldest of eight siblings, had been a good and caring brother.
In October 1987, Adam, then a 26-year-old soldier, ran amok and went on a shooting spree at Jalan Chow Kit that left one person dead and several others wounded.
He escaped the death penalty and was sent to Tanjung Rambutan Hospital for 10 years after he was certified to be insane at the time of committing the offence. – Bernama, March 31, 2021
