Two eyewitnesses of a police shootout in Ampang last week have claimed that
plainclothes personnel shot an unarmed man "point blank" and released at least
10 rounds of ammunition indiscriminately.
Entrepreneur D Dinesh, 26, who died two days after he was
shot in the wee hours of Aug 21, was not carrying anything when he
got out of a white Proton Perdana, said
his friend Y Ilavarasen, 24
(right).
He said the Proton had been
blocked by an unmarked car at a traffic light near Ampang Waterfront.
"I
was a few cars ahead of him and could see him from the back. He wasn't holding
anything, Ilavarasen told a press conference called by PKR today.
"(Police) were shooting point blank, up and down. Everyone panicked. The
shooting was haywire and there was no warning, neither did they identify
themselves as police. They just started shooting, pointing towards people and
cars.”
Ilavarasen said he had seen the Proton behind him after he sped
off, and thought that Dinesh had escaped unscathed.
“When I pulled to
the side of the car, I notice that he was not the one driving, but another
person. The driver told me Dinesh had been shot. I found out from his cousin
that he was taken to Ampang Hospital,” he said.
The second eyewitness and another friend, K Moses, 23,
(left) had stopped at the traffic lights two cars behind the Proton. He
said Dinesh was “running back” to his car when he was shot.
“Then I saw
beside my car (that) a guy was shooting. I didn't know who he was. He shot
everyone, whatever that was moving,” he said.
“I sped off, but one
bullet hit my car. I was lucky it didn't hit the side window. The way he was
shooting, it looked like he wanted to kill people. He didn't stop. I heard more
than 10 shots. (One bullet hit) a taxi.. If I knew they were police, I would not
have left.”
Asked if he would be able to recognise the officer who
released the shots, he said: “Yes.”
Ilavarasen, who works in logistics
and Moses who works at a car dealership, were driving separate cars and were
planning to have supper with Dinesh in the area, after receiving a call from
him.
“We had not decided where to go. Just to meet around Ampang, maybe
go to Pandan, to Steven's Corner, but on the way there, we saw Dinesh's car so
we just followed him,” Ilvarasen said.
He did not know if Dinesh's car
was part of a 14-car convoy - as the police have claimed - as the supper plan
only involved Dinesh, Moses and himself.
Police report lodgedThe duo lodged
police reports today at the Tropicana police station with their respective
accounts of the incident.
They were accompanied by PKR MPs for Subang
and Kapar, Sivarasa Rasiah and S Manickvasagam, PKR vice-president N Surendran
and PKR supreme council bureau member Latheefa Koya.
Ilavarasen’s account refutes that of the police, who had
said the Proton had tried to back into police patrol cars.
"After that,
four men carrying parangs got out of the car and smashed the patrol cars,"
Ampang Jaya deputy police chief Md Nazri Zawawi was reported as saying in Malay
daily
Kosmo!.
Police also claimed that the Proton had been
intercepted as it was part of a 14-car convoy which was on the way to resume a
gang fight which had taken place at the Pandan Perdana flats.
Harian
Metro quoted Md Nazri as saying that the Dinesh was part of the ‘Viva
Nanda’ gang which is suspected to be involved with loan shark syndicates.
He said police were on the hunt for the gang members after the gang
fight was reported to have left three injured.
Dinesh's father W
Darmasena has lodged a police report to seek an investigation into the death of
his son.
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