KUALA LUMPUR: The two brothers, who were shot in Batu Caves, were allegedly attacked for just doing their jobs as car repossessors.
Sources said the brothers had turned up to repossess a car outside a budget hotel in Batu Caves near here before noon Tuesday.
However, they were confronted by two men who tried to stop them.
"Words were exchanged and things got heated but the two brothers managed to take the car and drove off," sources said.
The elder brother, 34, was driving their own car while the younger one, 30, was driving the repossessed car.
The two stopped at a red traffic light at Jalan Besar Sunway Batu Caves, less than a kilometre away from the hotel, not knowing that the two men who tried to stop them earlier had caught up with the siblings in another car.
One of the men got out, walked to the elder brother's vehicle, opened the car door and shot him. He did the same with the second victim.
The shooter then got back into his car and sped off with his accomplice a few hundred metres away to another parked car by the roadside.
They ditched their car and got into the parked vehicle and later drove off.
The elder brother was shot in the head while the younger one, who was shot in the ear and cheek, managed to drive to a petrol station nearby to seek help.
Police are checking the hotel registry where the two assailants were allegedly staying and the nature of their stay.
Sources claimed that they may have been part of a robbery gang or involved in the underworld.
Gombak OCPD Asst Comm Ali Ahmad said police were investigating the shooting and the motive behind it.
"Both brothers are being treated at Hospital Selayang," he said when contacted.
