JOHOR BARU: Two robbers, linked to the botched armed robbery that killed an elderly woman in Kangkar Tebrau, were arrested along with a woman after a high-speed chase and a shootout.
Johor police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Kamaruddin Md Din said the suspects, aged 35 and 37, were arrested after they pulled off another armed robbery at a bank in Taman Molek, involving a male victim in his 30s on Saturday .“Based on our intelligence, we managed to track down the suspects including a woman, 22, travelling in the stolen car at Pasir Gudang on Monday , ” he said at a press conference at the Seri Alam police headquarters on Tuesday .
“One of the suspects then pointed a gun at my men and fired several shots, forcing the team to reply with a few shots to protect themselves, ” he said, adding that the shots hit both male suspects in their legs. “‘Ops Kesan” was then immediately launched to track down the robber that fled. He was later apprehended at a house in Plentong at 12.10am on Tuesday.“We considered both suspects as ‘trigger happy’ based on their behaviour of shooting randomly.
On Friday , a 75-year-old woman was killed by a stray bullet fired by a robber at Jalan Tun Fatimah 2, Kangkar Tebrau.
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