Policemen investigating at the crime scene.
SIBU: A drive-by shooting occurred here yesterday afternoon which resulted in a prominent figure nicknamed Ah Kang among the two that got shot.
Sibu deputy police chief Supt Martin Koo said the case was being investigated under Section 307 of the Penal Code for attempted murder.
The incident happened around 1.15pm when Ah Kang, accompanied by three of his security guards, was having lunch with a friend at a coffee shop in Pahlawan Lane 7A-4.
Ah Kang and his friend, both 44 years old, were seated at a table while the three guards were at another table beside them when a car pulled up.
A shot was fired from a shotgun from inside the car which had three persons inside.
The site where the shooting took place.
Senior investigating officer ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan pointing at a pellet found at the five-foot-way of the coffee shop.
Koo said one of the guards, in retaliation, fired two shots which hit the trunk of the car that was speeding off.
He confirmed that the guard and his gun were licensed.
At the time of the incident not many customers were in the shop, he said.
The stray pellets from the shot fired from the car pierced through a curtain before it grazed Ah Kang and his friend, leaving nine holes on the curtain.
Ah Kang sustained light injury on his left fingers while his friend was slightly injured on the ear and cheek.
They were rushed to the Rejang Medical Centre where their condition was reported to be stable.
Some stray pellets also shattered the glass panel of a refrigerator in the coffee shop.
Koo said the police were studying footages of the CCTV in the shop.
Meanwhile, the police said they found a car, believed to have been used by the suspects, abandoned next to a house at Lane 21, Gambir Road here around 6pm.
It is learnt that a resident saw the car parked there around 2pm.
The resident alerted the police about it.
The police said the car had a false registration plate apart from a chassis that had been tampered.
Initial investigations showed the car was reported missing at Tekam Road on Sept 13.
On Nov 3 2012, Ah Kang’s wife Law Leh Kuong was shot dead at a coffee shop about 50 metres away from the coffee shop where the shooting occurred yesterday afternoon.
Law was apparently hit by stray pellets at the back of her head while having lunch with Ah Kang, his male cousin and spouse and a male friend.
Law was the elder sister of Law Leh Hing, a businessman who was gunned down in a shooting at Brooke Drive at 10.15am on Jan 11, 2012.