IT appears that the number of shooting incidents has escalated in recent months, with one happening as recently as last week. On July 13, a man high on drugs allegedly shot his mother, brother, two-year-old nephew and his mother’s boyfriend with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol in Batu Maung, Penang. A week earlier, a female real estate agent was killed and her daughter injured in a shooting incident at Taman OUG, Kuala Lumpur.
On June 15, a businessman was shot dead in his car just after the Sungai Rasau toll plaza in Shah Alam and on June 21, PKR politician Bill Kayong was shot in his pick-up truck at the traffic light junction in Lutong, north of Miri city.