Published: Friday August 27, 2010 MYT 11:47:00 AM
Updated: Friday August 27, 2010 MYT 2:07:55 PM
Hospital guard shoots dead two colleagues after argument (Updated)
KLANG: A security guard at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital here shot dead his two colleagues after an argument over a "sleeping on the job" remark. Selangor criminal investigations department acting chief ACP Omar Mammah said the dead were identified as P. Mailvanagam, 47, of Kuala Lumpur and S. Gunasilan, 22, of Taman Sentosa here.
Gunasilan
He said the 37-year-old suspect was angry when one of them made a remark about him sleeping on the job. "An argument ensued between the suspect and his colleagues. He then fired two shots from a pump gun, hitting each of them in the chest," he said.
The victims collapsed and died on the spot in the incident at the hospital's car park at 5.30am Friday, he said, adding that the trio were on a night shift. Omar said the suspect, from Sabah, turned himself in at the hospital's police beat base soon after the incident.
Mailvanagam
He said initial investigations found that the three had never been involved in argument among themselves prior to the incident. The victims' bodies were sent to the hospital for post mortem, he said, adding that police were investigating the case under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.
Meanwhile, Gunasilan's mother M. Rajeswari, 37, who is also a security guard at the hospital, said she was on duty at the maternity ward on the hospital's first floor when she was told of the incident at about 6.25am. "When I went to the car park area, I saw my son's dead body. The last time I saw him alive was when he came to see me for some food at 12.30am," she said.
Police taking measurements at the scene of the shooting.
The hospital's chief security officer Abd Ghani Abd Rahman, 37, said he was at the guard room when he heard the blasts, which he thought were from fire crackers. "Shortly after that, the suspect, holding a pump gun, came to see me and said he had shot someone. I didn't believe him but I went to the car park area nonetheless.
When I saw the bodies I rushed to the police beat base to inform them of the incident. "The man looked normal when he came to see me. I have never heard of any problem among them," he said, adding that the suspect had been working at the hospital for the past three months. - Bernama
