SUBANG JAYA: Despite being slashed with a parang, a businessman’s bodyguard shot and injured two men in an attempted robbery in Jalan SS13/1K, USJ1 here yesterday.
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The incident happened at 4.30pm when the businessman, who is a ‘Datuk’, had gone to his scrap metal yard behind the Summit USJ Shopping Mall with his brother and the bodyguard to finalise a business deal.
Subang Jaya district acting police chief Supt Tan Ah Chua said they waited in the businessman’s car outside the scrap metal yard.
When a lorry arrived, the businessman got out of his car to have a discussion with two workers inside the lorry.
It is believed they were discussing a business deal involving 12 tonnes of copper. The businessman had brought along a briefcase containing RM200,000.
When the discussion ended about five minutes later, a man in his 20 suddenly approached the businessman and ordered him to open the briefcase.
“Fearing for his life, the businessman opened the briefcase when a car with four men inside arrived and parked beside his car,” said Tan.
At this point, the man who ordered the businessman to open his briefcase fled, and three men, who were armed with an axe and parangs, got out of their car and stormed the businessman’s car. They attacked the bodyguard who was inside the car with the businessman’s brother.
“The 44-year-old bodyguard was slashed on his right arm and thigh but he managed to pull out his pistol and fire four shots,” said Tan.
The shots hit two robbers in their abdomen but the other two escaped without the loot.
Police, who were alerted, detained five suspects — the two injured robbers, the man who ordered the businessman to open the briefcase and the two men in the lorry.
They also issued an alert to hospitals and clinics as they believe one of the two robbers who escaped had sustained a gunshot wound.
