KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 14 — Police have launched the identification and pictures of the person wished for firing a gun on the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Selangor earlier this morning and severely injuring one other man.
The suspected shooter who fled the scene was named as Hafizul Harawi, 38, Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain informed a information convention at KLIA.
The suspected shooter who fled the scene was named as Hafizul Harawi, 38, Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) director Commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain informed a information convention at KLIA. — eNM pic
“The police have categorized the suspect as armed and harmful. Anyone who spots him is urged to share the data with the police however to not act alone.
“We have launched operations to hint him. All close by and neighbouring (state CID chiefs) have been mobilised,” he was quoted as saying by The Star.
The senior policeman urged the suspect to give up.
Selangor police chief Commissioner Datuk Hussein Omar Khan had earlier launched a press release confirming a shooting incident contained in the KLIA Terminal 1 arrival corridor at about 1.30am.
In it, he stated the suspect had injured a Malaysian man who labored as a bodyguard.
He added that police have been investigating the case as tried homicide underneath Section 307 of the Penal Code as investigations confirmed the suspect was concentrating on his spouse who was ready for the arrival of an umrah group on the airport, and that the incident was not linked to any terrorist group or exercise.
National information company eNM reported Mohd Shuhaily saying the suspect was discovered to have three previous criminal records.
Two of them have been underneath Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation, punishable with jail as much as two years, or a wonderful, or each. The third file was underneath Section 380/170 of the identical Code for theft and imitating a civil officer.
The senior federal policeman stated the suspect’s spouse had filed two complaints in opposition to her husband underneath Section 506 in 2016 and once more final December.
He stated the person was arrested subsequent to the December criticism and that an investigation paper had been ready however police got extra directions.
Mohd Shuhaily stated investigations to this point confirmed at the moment’s shooting stemmed from a home battle between the suspect and his spouse who’s believed to be within the early levels of being pregnant, however are additionally within the strategy of a divorce.
He added that the suspect’s spouse employed private bodyguards after the final incident.
He stated the incident this morning started with the suspect throwing a firecracker that injured two members of the general public earlier than approaching his spouse who was escorted by two bodyguards.
He stated one of many bullets struck the spouse and one other hit one of many bodyguards within the stomach.
Mohd Shuhaily stated the injured bodyguard’s situation is now crucial.
He stated police have questioned practically 30 individuals who have been on the KLIA 1 arrival corridor on the time of the incident.
He added that the case can be being investigated underneath Section 8 of the Firearms Act 1960 for illegal possession of a weapon punishable with jail as much as a most 14 years, and no fewer than six strokes of the rotan.
