Security firm boss shot dead

GOMBAK: A security firm owner was shot dead while his wife was seriously injured when two gunmen shot the couple outside a school in Selayang here.

K. Archuthan, 41, and S. Chitra, 36, were waiting to fetch their 17-year-old son from school when the gunmen on bikes shot them at about 1pm.

Archuthan died on the spot while Chitra is in critical condition at Selayang Hospital after a bullet hit her in the abdomen.
A passer-by took her to the hospital.

Gunned down: Policemen removing the body from the scene outside the school in Selayang, Gombak.

Gombak OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rahim Abdullah said police found six 9mm bullet slugs at the scene.
He said initial investigation revealed Archuthan was a recently released Emergency Ordinance detainee.

A police source said the only witness who could provide information to the police on the incident were the school students.

None, however, have come forward.

“We have obtained a CCTV footage from one of the nearby premises but it does not point to the scene of the crime,” he said.

A student, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was at the library when he heard the shots.
“By the time we went out, we saw people carrying the woman out of the car. I did not see the shooter as it happened very fast,” he said.

A school security guard was inside the guard house when she “heard some loud noise”.
“I thought it was firecrackers because students always throw them into the school compound.

“I did not expect it to be gun shots,” she said, adding that she then ordered all the students into the school compound immediately.