Bukit Bintang shooting: Police tracking down two individuals

KUALA LUMPUR: The police are tracking down two local men to assist investigations into a shooting incident at a hotel in Bukit Bintang on Tuesday.

Dang Wangi police chief ACP Noor Dellhan Yahaya said they had already identified the suspects who are in their 40s and 50s.

“A local man who was detained at the scene yesterday has been remanded until May 9 to facilitate investigations,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Noor Dellhan said police are investigating the relationship between the victim and all the suspects as well as the motive behind the incident. In the incident, a 49-year-old local man was found dead with a gunshot wound to the forehead in a hotel room, an hour after he checked in.

Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief SAC Habibi Majinji said the incident was discovered by a hotel employee who gained entry into the room and then called the police at about 7pm.

He said the victim, from Johor, had checked in around 6pm, adding the firearm used in the incident had not been found.

The case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.