Futsal brawl leads to teenager's death

PETALING JAYA: An 18-year-old school leaver was allegedly beaten to death by six men at a futsal court, after a game at his flat in Permai Apartment here, Thursday night.

Believed to have been bashed repeatedly by fists and kicks to the head, supermarket cashier Mohd Farhan Osmera (pic) slipped into a coma and died in the emergency ward of the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) at about 9.30am Friday.

Mohd Farhan’s mother Suriah Asibi, 47 said that her son returned home after playing futsal with one of the suspects at about 9pm that night but left again, saying that he was going to meet a friend.

“I was told that Farhan was stopped by one of the boys he was playing futsal with and they had an argument.

“My son punched the boy in the face and people had to go break up the fight,” she told reporters at the UMMC mortuary Saturday.

The suspect, said police, soon returned with another five men and ganged up on Mohd Farhan - cornering him at the fence of the futsal court and then beating and kicking him.

Petaling Jaya OCPD ACP Azmi Abu Kassim said that Mohd Farhan sustained injuries to his face, the back of his head and his neck.

“The fence of the court was dented, suggesting that there was a struggle. We believe the fight started after the suspect teased Mohd Farhan about his dead grandmother.

“We have arrested the six people believed to be involved in the beating and will remand them soon,” he said, adding that the case was now being investigated as a murder.

The ages of those arrested are 14, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 43.