TNI Member Who Was Stabbed To Death, Turned Out To Be Trying To Break Up The Noise Over The Noisy Exhaust

The suspect in the murder of a TNI member wears a blue prison t-shirt/ Photo: IST

DEPOK - Depok Metro Police finally succeeded in uncovering the murder case of a man on Jalan Petombak RT04/05 Harjamukti, Cimanggis, Depok who was found dead in the bushes.

The man, known to be a member of the Indonesian Army, named Sertu Yordan Lopo, was apparently killed by the perpetrator named Ivan Victor Dethan alias Ivan (28).

Depok Metro Police Chief Kombes Imran Edwin Siregar said the perpetrator, Ivan Victor Dethan, was arrested in the Pasar Minggu area of South Jakarta on Thursday, September 23, at around 10.30 WIB.

"When arrested, a member of the Resmob Team led by the Resmob Kanit AKP Suparno, the perpetrator did not resist being arrested in the Pasar Minggu area and was immediately taken to the Resort Police," said Imran accompanied by Dandim 0508 Depok Colonel Inf Agus Isrok Mikroj, Colonel czi Nurdihin Adi Nugroho, Dan Menzikon Pusziad, and Head of Criminal Investigation Unit AKBP Yogen. Heros, at the Depok Police Headquarters, Friday, September 24.

Kombes Imran revealed that the stabbing carried out by the perpetrators began when the perpetrators tried to break up the fight between M and A over the noisy exhaust of the motorcycle.

"So M and A, there is a conflict over the motor noise exhaust issue, then the culprit Ivan, who is also a relative of M, helped after that, the culprit Ivan took out a penknife, directly stabbed A and injured him in the upper right thigh," said Imran.

Seeing the commotion, said Imran, a victim came who tried to intervene. However, Imran said, Lopo actually became a victim.

"Perpetrator I did not know that the victim Jordan Lopo was a member of the TNI. There was a chance that perpetrator I stabbed a penknife once in the left side of his chest and died," he added.

The victim, after being stabbed by the perpetrator's knife, tried to walk as far as 50 meters from the scene until finally lying in the bushes, and was found by residents at around 06.00 WIB.

"After the perpetrator stabbed the victim, he immediately fled to his rented place in Pasar Minggu area. It didn't take long for the members to know the identity of the perpetrator. They were immediately arrested that day, a few hours after finding the victim's body." said Imran.

The evidence confiscated were the victim's clothes when worn, a cellphone, and the penknife used to stab the two victims.

The perpetrators are subject to Article 338 of the Criminal Code concerning murder which carries a sentence of more than 20 years.