Cop and lover found shot in room

Crime scene: Police officers cordoning off the area where the murder of the policeman and his lover took place in Taman Pertama, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

KUALA LUMPUR: The bodies of a policeman and his Vietnamese lover, victims of an apparent murder-suicide, were found at a flat in Cheras.

The 26-year-old policeman, who was with Bukit Aman, was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a rented room at a house at Taman Bukit Ria yesterday.

His lover, aged 19, was also found with a bullet wound in her head and his service pistol in her hand.

Police were alerted at around 10am after the policeman’s brother called a colleague and asked him to check on his brother.

The lance corporal had been unreachable for nearly three days and his family was worried.

A team of policemen went to check on the man and made the gruesome discovery after breaking down the locked door to the room.

The policeman was found shirtless and clad only in shorts, while the woman was wearing a T-shirt and shorts.

City police chief Comm Datuk Amar Singh said the bodies were found close to each other on a mattress.

“The policeman had a gunshot entry wound from the left side and an exit wound from the right while the woman had an entry wound from the right and an exit wound from the left,” Comm Amar said.

“We also found drugs, believed to be ketamin, in the house,” he said, adding that the bodies had been sent for a post-mortem.

Comm Amar said the case was being investigated as a murder-suicide.

One possible scenario police were looking into is that both were high at the time and the woman shot the man before realising what she had done and turned the weapon on herself, he added.

He said an investigation was ongoing under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder.

A neighbour said the occupants of the flat were usually quiet and kept to themselves.

The neighbour, who declined to be named, said the policeman moved in less than two months ago.

The neighbour was also shocked to learn that he was a policeman.

“I didn’t know him well as I did not see him often,” he said.

Asked if there were any unusual sounds over the past few days, the neighbour said there was nothing out of the ordinary.

The neighbour had also noticed the woman but did not know she was a foreigner.

No family members were seen at the Hospital Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre mortuary, where the bodies were taken, as at 8.30pm.

Those with information on the case have been urged to contact the police hotline at 03-2115 9999 or visit the nearest police station.