BODYGUARD SHOOTS DEAD
BUSINESSMAN AND TWO OTHERS
THE bodyguard of a 32-yearold businessman Datuk ran amok yesterday, shooting dead his boss and two people following an argument.
Four people were wounded as the bodyguard randomly fired his gun during the 7.30pm incident in the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway.
Two of the businessman’s friends, who were in the vehicle, escaped, though at least one was injured after being pistol-whipped by the bodyguard.
Sources said a woman who picked up the pistol-whipped man, who was bleeding from a wound to his head, lodged a report stating that she believed he had been injured in an accident.
The woman said the man borrowed her mobile phone as his was “still in the car” and called someone. She said she heard the man say “the bodyguard has gone mad”,
“Tailo is dead” and “he hit me on the head with his gun”.
State Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Zainol Samah identified the businessman as Datuk Ong Teik Kwong.
He said police had arrested the bodyguard not far from the scene.
It is learnt that Ong, his two friends and the bodyguard were traveling in the expressway when an argument broke out. The bodyguard then shot Ong dead.
Ong’s two friends tried to grab hold of the bodyguard, but the latter pistol-whipped one of them and then aimed his gun at them. Both men fled the scene.
The bodyguard was said to have
begun randomly firing his weapon, shooting dead the driver of another vehicle 200m away and another man who was in a road running perpendicular to the expressway.
The identities of the other two dead could not be established, nor those wounded, except for Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) journalist Mohamad Amirul Amin.
Amirul and another journalist were on a motorcycle on their way to an assignment, when they stopped to see if they could help what they thought was a stalled car.
Amirul was shot once in the shoulder. One of the wounded was believed to have been a woman and another was said to be a senior officer of Tenaga Nasional Bhd.
All the wounded were taken to Penang Hospital.
Amirul’s friend, who declined to be named, said he was riding pillion on the RTM journalist’s motorcycle when they stopped to help the driver of the “stalled” car.
The reporter said he did not hear any gunshots.
“We were unaware of what was happening... then I saw Amirul grimace in pain, and the next thing we knew, his shirt was covered in blood.”