GEORGE TOWN, Feb 26 — Police have arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with a shooting incident in Bukit Mertajam on Tuesday that injured a mother and her son.
State CID chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Datuk Mazlan Kesah said the suspect was picked up at his house in Bukit Mertajam at about 12.15am yesterday.
“We recovered a samurai sword from the house. Initial investigations revealed the suspect has five criminal records involving drugs and violent crime,” he said after attending the conferment of rank to policemen at the state police headquarters in Jalan Penang here.
Mazlan said police were looking for three other suspects.
On Tuesday afternoon, a 43-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son were shot at 10 times in a suspected gangland attack.
They were shot at a traffic lights junction on their way home from court where the son was on trial for drug possession.
This latest incident comes eight months after the father was killed by a Molotov cocktail at their home.
Police believe both attacks were linked to the son’s involvement in criminal activities.
Mazlan also said Penang police were working with their Kedah counterparts to identify a body found at the Tasek Pedu reserve forest on Tuesday night.
The body is believed to be that of Ong Teik Beng, who was wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of a businessman from Bukit Mertajam last month.
“We are waiting for more information from our counterparts in Kedah and we will work with them in the investigations,” he said.
Police had released a photograph of Ong and three others on Monday in connection with the murder of Datuk Seri Law Yeong Chow.
Law’s family reported him missing on Jan 13. He was last seen exiting a foot reflexology centre in Juru when several people who arrived in two cars bundled him up into one of the vehicles.
His charred body was found three days later at a forest in Lumut.
Police have arrested 26 people aged between 19 and 50 from Bukit Tengah, Bayan Lepas and Kuala Lumpur and recovered RM214,059 in cash, six luxury cars, 31 gold wafers worth RM186,000, jewellery, handphones and laptops from them.
