PETALING JAYA: Police have collected 228 DNA samples from residents at Idaman Apartment in Damansara Damai here as part of the investigation into the search for the killer of six-year-old autistic boy Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matiin.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said the large-scale operation involved house-to-house checks and the collection of DNA samples from the residents.
As of yesterday morning, he said 5,628 people and 2,484 housing units had already been checked.
There are 18 residential blocks in the area.
“The rainy weather has slowed down the search operation and the handing over of evidence to the police,” he said when contacted by Bernama yesterday.
He said 278 police officers and personnel from various units were involved in the operation.
Police also focused on a storage facility about 50m from Block R, Idaman Apartment.
Checks by Bernama at the apartment yesterday found that the police had deployed two sniffer dogs – Ricks and Gucci – from Bukit Aman and the KLIA district police headquarters.
The two sniffer dogs were led into the structure that is believed to store motorcycles, plastic chairs and canopies.
The owner of the storage facility, Noraini Ahmad, 51, said it was always locked and only opened to take out the motorcycles for her family members.
“About half an hour after the tracker dogs were taken into the store, police informed me that the inspection was completed and allowed me to lock it.
“But a short while later they asked me to unlock it again to continue their inspection,” she told reporters.
After almost four hours of investigations, the K9 Unit and Forensic Unit were seen leaving the location at about 2.15pm.
Zayn Rayyan was reported missing on Tuesday afternoon in Damansara Damai. The child was found dead in a stream near his residence the following day, about 200m from his apartment block.
The deceased’s grandfather, Zahari Mohd Reba, 55, when met at home in Idaman Apartment, denied that the death of his eldest grandson was due to revenge.
According to him, his son Zaim Ikhwan and daughter-in-law Ismanira Abdul Manaf had lived at the apartment for the past three years.
“Their daily routine is to go to work and come back home. They only know the neighbours living in front. They harbour no grudges against anyone,” he said.
