POLICE are investigating a shooting incident in front of a house in a Sitiawan residential area, yesterday.

Perak police chief Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said a man called the police at 1.07pm yesterday to report the incident.

“Police rushed to the scene and according to the house owner, who is staying with his wife and two children, his wife had heard an explosion outside the house earlier in the morning, but ignored it.”

“At about 12.45pm, the complainant went out of his house to collect some items and noticed damage to the rear window of his car and saw a bullet casing under the vehicle,” he said in a statement in Ipoh today.

Yusri said a team from the Forensic Division (D10) of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Perak Police Contingent Headquarters was at the scene and found a hole in the rear window of the man’s car, believed to be from a gun shot, as well as a bullet casing.

He said the police viewed footage from a nearby closed-circuit television camera and saw two male suspects on a Yamaha Y15 motorcycle, which had no registration number,  with one of them seen firing a shot at the man’s car.

“The suspect was then seen trying to fire another shot towards the front of the house, but the gun was believed to have failed, and the suspects then fled,” he said.

He said the police were investigating the case under Section 8 of the Firearms (Increased Penalty) Act 1971. and urged those with information about the incident to contact Senior Investigating Officer ASP Mohd Azalan Ab Karim of the Manjung District Police Headquarters at 019-3927837 or the nearest police station. – Bernama, October 1, 2022.