Police Shoot His Friend's Car Thief In Makassar

Perpetrators of theft in Makassar (DOK. Police)

MAKASSAR - The Panakkukang Police Team, Makassar, arrested Ma (32), the perpetrator of car theft on Jalan Sukadamai. The perpetrator was shot in the right leg for resisting when he was arrested.

Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of Panakkukang Police, Iptu Iqbal Usman, said that the victim at that time was parking his car in front of the shop. But in the morning the car was gone.

"There was a morning when the victim wanted to get out and was about to go to his car, which was parked in front of the place where he had sold," Iptu Iqbal Usman told reporters, Monday, February 1.

The police investigated this case and arrested the perpetrator on Jalan Maccini Raya. The police managed to find the stolen car that was hidden by the perpetrator on Jalan Poros Sungguminasa-Takalar, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi.

However, when the police carried out the development of showing the location of the hidden car, the perpetrators fought back

The perpetrator was given warning shots but was ignored so that the police took a decisive measure of action by immobilizing the perpetrator by shooting his right leg twice.

"The perpetrator had borrowed the victim's car on January 25, at which time the perpetrator made a duplicate key that the perpetrator would use when carrying out the action," he explained.