KUALA LUMPUR: For two months, the main suspect in the murder of an entertainment outlet manager outside a night club in 8th Avenue, in Section 8, Petaling Jaya, on Dec 16, was on the run.
His days on the lam, however, ended this evening when police arrested him in Pedas, Negri Sembilan.
A team of Selangor Criminal Investigation Department (CID) policemen detained him and two other men at 5.30pm while they were traveling on the North-South Expressway (NSE), headed towards Kuala Lumpur.
Selangor CID chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Fadzil Ahmat said the police team had been following the three men, who were in a Perodua MyVi, from 3pm from Taman Bukit Indah in Johor Baru.
It is understood that the police team had been traveling in an unmarked vehicle.
Despite this, however, the three men were believed to have come to the realisation that they were being trailed and began to speed up and a chase ensued.
“While on the NSE, near the Pedas area, when the police team tried to stop the MyVi, the driver of the vehicle tried to ram into the police vehicle. However, the police team managed to stop the vehicle.
“As the team tried to arrest them, they resisted and grappled with police for a few minutes. In the end, however, they were all detained,” he said when contacted.
Fadzil said the 28-year-old main suspect in the case had a criminal record consisting of 10 offences, including for violent crime, possession of firearms, drugs and organised crime.
“All three are being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for the murder of the entertainment outlet manager. They will be brought to the Petaling Jaya magistrates court for remand tomorrow,” he said.
At 6.45am on Dec 16, Edward Rishal S. Reggie was set upon by a group of men armed with parang outside the night club in Petaling Jaya.
Based on closed-circuit television camera footage, it was understood that an argument had occurred between two groups of men about 5.30am. An hour later, four vehicles — a Perodua MyVi, a Honda HR-V, a Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Camry — pulled up at the venue.
Several men alighted from the vehicles, all armed with parang, and attacked the victim. Although critically wounded, the victim managed to run back into the pub.
The victim, who managed an entertainment outlet in Bangsar, was pronounced dead at the scene by a medical team about 7.40am.
Five people aged between 20 and 31 were detained by police on the same day.