A Bloody Brawl In Palembang That Was KILLED By FAP, The Police Have Determined 3 Youth Suspects

Head of the West Ilir 1 Police Criminal Investigation Unit Palembang, Iptu Apriansyah, showed evidence of sharp weapons of the type of cerrurit/ANTARA

The police have named three people as suspects in a brawl that killed a teenager in Palembang City, South Sumatra. West Ilir 1 Police Chief Palembang Kompol Rian Suhendi said the three suspects were men with the initials R (21), DA (19) and IQ (20) residents of Palembang. The three were named as suspects after going through the investigation process and supported by the completeness of evidence and statements from eight witnesses, since last Sunday afternoon. The status is already a suspect. Their investigators also admitted that they were really involved in a brawl, then stabbed the victim to death, he said accompanied by the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Ilir Barat Police 1 Iptu Apriansyah in Palembang, Antara, Monday, January 16. The brawl between youth groups took place on Jalan Demang Lebar Daun, last Sunday morning at around 04.10 WIB. A teenage boy who died in the brawl was known to have the initials FAP (19), a resident of Banyuasin Regency. On the victim's body, the police found one stab wound to the back of the head, four stab wounds to the back and one cut to the left thigh. "The victim's body has now been handed over to the family after previously being evacuated by the police and residents to Bhayangkara M Hasan Hospital in Palembang," he said. According to him, from the results of the police investigation, it was known that the brawl was triggered by a mutual challenge to fight between the group of suspects and the group of victims who were newcomers in Palembang. From this incident, the police secured evidence in the form of two units of sharp weapons of the type of machete and sickle, the victim's clothes including several units of motorized vehicles. For his actions, the suspect was charged with Article 338 of the Criminal Code concerning murder with a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.