Ex-serviceman questions son's killing
The father of Hanafi Omar, 22, who was recently shot dead by police for alleged robbery, does not believe his son was killed in self-defence.
The father of Hanafi Omar, 22, who was recently shot dead by police for alleged robbery, does not believe his son was killed in self-defence.
Omar Abu Bakar (left in pix), 57, an ex-serviceman, said the wounds on his Hanafi's face are not consistent with gunshots fired to ward off a charging assailant.
Omar recounted his firearms training while with the army, and stressed that the two bullet wounds on the right side of his son's face are quite odd.
"I know how to handle guns, and I can't believe it when they say my son charged at them. You don't get those kind of wounds when charging at someone," he said after accompanying his eldest son to file a police report on the incident at the Petaling Jaya police headquarters today.
His son Mohammad Najib, 27, filed a report asking for an in-depth investigation into the death of Hanafi (right).
They were accompanied by Lawyers for Liberty representative Sasha Lyna Abdul Latif, Sungai Siput MP Dr Devaraj Jeyakumar and rights group Suaram coordinator Lucas Yap Heng Lung.
The police have claimed they fired in self-defence, as Mohd Hanafi Omar (right) and two others - Mohd Shamil Hafiz Shapiei, 15, and Hairul Nizam Tuah, 20 - had allegedly charged at police with machetes after attempting to rob a petrol station.
‘Hanafi was a Tabligh member’
Sasha, who advised the family on how to lodge the police report, scoffed at acting Selangor police chief A Thaiveegan’s insistence that the trio were “seasoned criminals”, pointing to the glaring absence of evidence.
“This does not make sense. He (Hanafi) was a member of the Tabligh movement (an Islamic missionary group). He has no criminal record, the way the police shot them is very suspect and it is the same as in the Aminulrasyid (Amzah) case.
“The facts of the case are the same. Why is it that whenever there is a machete, someone gets shot?”
Jayakumar (right), who helped Omar and his family make arrangements to file the police report, said the police will only record statements from the families of all three victims at a later date.
He stressed however that this case deserves nothing less than to be investigated by an independent panel, particularly since police credibility is at an all-time low.
“We are not satisfied. If there is any crime, arrest them and bring them to court... this is like a summary execution and they are using this just to achieve their KPI (key performance index).
“They are catching people, shooting them dead and then blaming the unsolved cases on them by simply giving the name Geng Minyak, and (then) declaring the cases solved.
“That is not what we want, and Malaysians no longer believe what they (the police) say. The family is not satisfied. Their child was not so bad that he should be shot.”
Opposition MPs are to prepare a memorandum with the families of the three victims, which they intend to submit to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Parliament next week.
