ROAD RAGE MURDER: Police hunt two road bullies

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ROAD RAGE MURDER: Police hunt two road bullies

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fairplay   Jan 26, 8:24 pm     show options Newsgroups: soc.culture.malaysia From: fairplay <fairp...@hiwaay.net> - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:24:32 -0600 Local: Wed,Jan 26 2005 8:24 pm Subject: ROAD RAGE MURDER: Police hunt two road bullies Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse ROAD RAGE MURDER: Police hunt two road bullies By Ahmad Fairuz Othman   The hunt is on for two road bullies who killed a young executive after an accident near a busy intersection in Subang Jaya. Mohd Nazri Ismail, 28, did not regain consciousness after being bludgeoned with a steering lock in the attack on Tuesday.   He died in Hospital Kuala Lumpur this morning, and the police have classified the case as murder.   Police found him lying next to his brown Proton Wira, with a five-centimetre-long gash on his head.   A blood-stained steering lock was found at the scene.   It is believed that the Cheras Umno Youth member and his two assailants had been involved in a traffic accident, and had driven to the side of the road near Persiaran Kewajipan to square off.   Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Noh Omar, speaking to reporters at Kuala Lumpur Hospital, said the victim telephoned a colleague just before the incident.   "The victim managed to call his colleague, saying he had been in an accident and that the people wanted to beat him up," he said.   "This must have been his last call."   Inspector Abang Zulkarnain Abang Mohamad said a witness informed the police of the fight at 8.30am. About 15 minutes later, a patrol car arrived at the scene.   The case has been classified as murder.   Superintendent Kamal Rosli Skymmar, Subang Jaya’s deputy police chief, said the left part of the victim’s car was dented and the front left tyre rim damaged.   Witnesses to the incident are urged to contact the Subang Jaya police headquarters at 03-5633 2222.   Noh lashed out at road bullies today.   "We have laws to settle accidents. We can’t settle it by beating people up and taking the law in our own hands," he said.   Nazri was buried this afternoon. His wife, Normah Mohd Yusof, said that she had to be strong for her two children, Nur Eryna Jasmin, 3, and Nur Edryana Farisha, just 10 months old.   "I must continue with my life and take care of my children," said the bank clerk, breaking down. Recent road rage cases   A string of road rage incidents have taken place across the country since the early 1990s.   One of the earliest was in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 6, 1991, when seven-year-old Ng Bee Li was blinded in her right eye when a bully threw a crowbar at her father’s car.   The most horrifying assault on a motorist by a bully happened in June 1996, when Leong Wai Pan, 39, had his face badly cut up with a tile-cutter.   Some other major road rage incidents over the last 11 years:   • September 1993: Filipino musician Clong Pichay, 34, died after being stabbed twice by a van driver at Kampung Sungai Kayu Ara, Damansara.   • March 1996: A woman was beaten up so badly by road bullies that she collapsed by the road at Jalan Tujuan, Subang Jaya.   • June 2002: Lawyer Datuk Balwant Singh, 83, shot dead despatch rider R. Gobalakrishnan when the latter approached his car with a piece of wood in his hand on Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, in an argument over a traffic incident.   • April 2003: A 73-year-old man died after reportedly being assaulted by a road bully in Bahau, Negri Sembilan. See Boon Pau was driving his car towards Bahau town when a man on a motorbike grazed his car.   • November 2004: A road bully stabbed Teo Kok Siang, 22, to death during an argument after their cars were involved in a collision at Km20, Jalan Johor Baru-Pontian. © Copyright 2004 The New Straits Times Press (M) Berhad. All rights reserved.