Delivery guy who ran amok remanded for a week
KUALA LUMPUR: The cigarette delivery man who killed two people and injured two others after he ran amok with his rambo knife has been remanded for a week until Oct 31.
City deputy CID chief Asst Comm Khairi Ahrasa said the 26-year-old had been remanded for seven days from yesterday for investigation.
“The post-mortems carried out on the victims have been completed but we are still awaiting the reports,” he said when contacted.
ACP Khairi said the case was being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.
It was reported that a cigarette delivery man went on a stabbing spree, taking down four victims, including fatally wounding two, here in Taman Melati on Thursday.
His 40 minutes of terror began at 11.20am when he drove his van to a kiosk at the Gombak Putra LRT terminal to deliver cigarettes. Without warning, he pulled out a rambo knife and stabbed the outlet proprietor Lau Siew Ling, 49, and her helper Sulianti Johari, 31.
He then got into his vehicle and drove towards Jalan Pertahanan parallel to the Melati LRT station less than 2km away, and rammed into another van.
When the owner of the van, Lee Kah Ghee, 48, got out to investigate, the man stabbed him several times, leaving him to die on the busy road.
The man then got back into his van and drove a few hundred metres before colliding with a car driven by college student Kwan Chun Tai, 25. He got out and stabbed Kwan.
Kwan ran, but the man chased him, caught him and stabbed him to death in Jalan Tumbuhan.
A crowd of onlookers cornered the man and disarmed him. He was then beaten up and detained until the police arrived and arrested him.
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A shocked Sulianti Johari, 31, said the suspect then calmly walked to his van, smiling and waving, before driving off from the Gombak LRT station.
She knew the man well as he had delivered goods to the shop often.
“We never had any arguments or disagreements.
“He was usually friendly with me. I thought of him as a younger brother,” she said after undergoing surgery for the stab wound on the lower part of her abdomen here yesterday.
Earlier, the suspect, was said to be looking like a man possessed.
Sundry shop owner Lau Siew Ling, 49, said she knew the suspect as he delivered cigarettes to her shop often but this time around, he was looking like a man possessed.
“He looked different,” she said.
“After he stopped his car in front of my shop, he got out holding a knife. He did not say anything to me.
“He just walked towards me and stabbed me,” she told reporters when met at Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL).
Lau was accompanied by her husband while waiting for surgery for a stab wound on the left side of her waist.
Her husband, who declined to be named, described the incident as bad luck.
“Fortunately, she survived the attack,” he said.
Lau said that after stabbing her, the suspect walked towards Sulianti and stabbed her.
Both women are in stable condition.
A bus driver, who wished to remain anonymous, said the young-looking man had come out smiling and waving before running to his car and driving off slowly.
“I ran up to the worker who was bleeding badly and she pointed to the white van,” he said.
He said he urged a guard at the station to shoot at the van.
“I kept shouting at him to do something but he froze and did not dare to do so,” he said.
Stopping the suspect at the station, he said, could have saved two people who were later killed by the man.
Meanwhile, a housemate and friend of the suspect was shocked to hear that it was him behind the brutal attacks.
“It is hard to believe because he is a nice guy. He has never caused any problems in the house,” he said.
The friend, who has lived together with the suspect in Selayang for six years, went to HKL to see if it he was really behind the attack after he saw the news on Facebook.
