More emerge to back boy’s story of fatal shooting

SHAH ALAM, May 5 — More witnesses have come forward to corroborate the testimony of Azamuddin Omar, the boy with Aminulrasyid Amzah the night the 14-year-old boy was shot dead by police.

“Their account verifies what the 15-year-old witness had said during a press conference on Monday,” said Khalid Samad to The Malaysian Insider today.

The Shah Alam MP said the two witnesses confirmed what happened prior to the shooting and car chase with police.

Azamuddin’s account differed from that of the police, who claimed Aminulrasyid had tried to ram them with his car and prompting them to open fire.

He had claimed his friend was in a state of panic after fleeing the scene of a minor accident and that they were being chased by motorcyclists.

According to Khalid, the new witnesses who have come forward include the owner, along with the driver of a parked car which was grazed by the Proton Iswara Aminulrasyid was driving.

“They were in a restaurant when the accident happened and when the Proton Iswara didn’t stop, three of their friends got on their motorcycles and gave chase.”

However, one of the motorcyclists hit the back of the Iswara and fell, before police joined the chase.

They did not see what happened next, but their account shows that the boys were just afraid and had panicked. They were not criminals fleeing from police.”

More importantly, Khalid said, their accounts proved Azamuddin was not exaggerating when he said they were pursued by motorcyclists.

“It strengthens his account of what happened. If he is telling the truth about this, we must also believe what he said about what happened later.”

During Monday’s press conference which was organised by lawyers representing the Aminulrasyid’s family, Azamuddin had also said his friend was scared and only wanted to return home because he was driving his sister’s car before police opened fire.

He also described how Aminulrasyid was shot in the back of the head, before his friend’s body fell in his lap and how the car kept moving forward because the dead schoolboy’s foot was still on the accelerator.

He said the police then kept shooting until the car hit a wall. He made no mention about Aminulrasyid trying to reverse the car to ram policemen.

Azamuddin then said he managed to crawl out of the car and had wanted to surrender himself but claimed he was kicked in the head and assaulted by no fewer than five policemen, before he escaped.

Meanwhile, Khalid said the latest witnesses had come to see him yesterday and had expressed fears about going to the police.

However, Khalid advised them to lodge police reports, which they did last night.

“I did not accompany them because, of late, I had been accused of trying to politicise the case.” he concluded.