Police fire shots to halt deadly car chase with man high on drugs


GEORGE TOWN: Police fired three shots to end a deadly car chase with a 46-year-old suspect believed to be high on drugs, during which he crashed into a disabled man, killing him.

George Town OCPD Asst Comm Soffian Santong said the chase started around 6.40am on Tuesday (June 15) when two policemen patrolling the Datuk Keramat area tried to stop the suspect who was behaving suspiciously in a car at the Jalan P. Ramlee-Jalan Perak traffic light.

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