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KUALA LUMPUR: Police were forced to shoot a four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle, with two people believed to be under the influence of drugs inside, when they fled after trying to collide with two policemen at along Jalan Gurney and Jalan Raja Chulan. Thursday.
The incident occurred at 4.45pm when a police team saw a 4WD Nissan Frontier in Jalan Gurney driven by a man, with a 24-year-old woman as a passenger, in a suspicious manner.
Wangsa Maju District Police Chief Rajab Ahad Ismail said police ordered the 26-year-old driver to stop but did not do so.
Instead, the driver sped towards Jalan Tun Razak before getting caught in a traffic jam.
“When a police officer approached the vehicle, the driver tried to ram him. This caused the policeman to fire a shot that hit the rear tire of the 4WD.
“However, the suspect recklessly drove into the city, colliding with several vehicles on the road before nearly colliding with a traffic policeman in Jalan Raja Chulan,” he said in a statement today.
Rajab said that the police finally arrested the suspects in front of Lot 10, Bukit Bintang.
The two suspects were found to have fled for fear of arrest by police as they were under the influence of drugs, he said.
Tests performed on their urine found that they were both positive for the drugs.
He said the man was also found to have 10 prior records for drug, robbery and robbery cases.
Both suspects have been detained for five days until Tuesday for investigations.
