Like An Action Film, A Man With An Assembled Gun In Banyuasin Is Desperate For A Shootout With The Police, 2 Residents Are Injured

The Head of Banyuasin Police, AKBP Imam Tarmudi shows evidence of the crime of the journalist attackers (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Banyuasin Criminal Investigation Unit, South Sumatra (Sumsel) was forced to shoot dead the perpetrator of the attack on an online media journalist for firing brutal shots when he was raided.

Head of Banyuasin Police, AKBP Imam Tarmudi said the perpetrator named Reno was raided at his house in Rantau Harapan Village, Rantau Bayur District, Banyuasin Regency, at 04.00 WIB.

When he was raided, the perpetrator tried to escape through the front window of the house while firing a shot from a homemade pistol.

Unfortunately, a member of the Banyuasin Police, Adjunct Inspector Dua Yudianysah, was shot by the perpetrator on the right arm and right chest.

"One of our members and two local residents were shot by the perpetrator, because it was getting more dangerous, the perpetrator had to be given measured decisive action," he explained.

Like an action film, Reno continued to fire in various directions until it hit two local residents. Reno and the police were involved in a shootout until the perpetrator's weapon fell and the police were quickly taken away.

Then Reno threw himself into the river behind his house, the police were forced to open fire because he had escaped earlier.

At around 07.00 WIB, residents and police found the body of the perpetrator dead by the river with three gunshot wounds. His body was immediately taken to the Bhayangkara Palembang Hospital for an autopsy.

Tarmudi explained that Reno was reported to the police in March 2020 for ganging up on a journalist who was about to work. Not only that, he was recorded as being involved in cases of possession of firearms and attempted murder until he was included in the wanted list (DPO).

From the raid the police confiscated evidence in the form of two homemade pistols, five bullet casings, and the remaining two bullets, as well as a magazine of bullets. Meanwhile, one victim of brutal shot he was rushed to Bhayangkara Hospital in Palembang and another victim was rushed to Banyuasin Hospital.