Police shoots teenager dead

PETALING JAYA: A suspected teenage robber was shot dead by police when he confronted them with a parang following a chase in Taman Medan here today.
The 19-year-old teenager who was driving a stolen car had earlier made a robbery attempt on a man on Jalan PJS1/2 at about 4.30am.
He sped off empty handed with an accomplice on seeing several passer-by coming to the victim's aid.
Police were alerted and were on the lookout for the suspects when two detectives on patrols spotted the suspect's car at Jalan PJS3/1.
On realising the police were on their trail, the suspects pulled over, jumped out of their vehicle and fled on foot.
Selangor police CID chief SAC Datuk Mohd Adnan Abdullah said a policeman managed to catch up with a suspect but the teenager whipped out a parang and repeatedly swung it at him.
He said on seeing the policeman was in danger, his colleague pulled out his pistol and fired a gunshot which hit the suspect in his abdomen.
The suspect died on the spot minutes later and a hunt for his accomplice who managed to escape is ongoing. It is learnt that the suspect's accomplice was arrested by police just weeks ago for an undisclosed offence and was freed on bail.
Checks by police showed that the suspect's vehicle, a Toyota Alphard was fitted with false registration plates and was reported stolen in Puchong last week.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that dissatisfied family members of the suspect who showed up at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre mortuary to claim his body had accused the police of high-handedness in handling the case.
They claimed that the suspect was a good person but mingled with bad company and that the police should not have opened gunfire to kill but only disarm the suspect.