Murder suspect turns gun on himself
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A MURDER suspect has died following an exchange of gunfire with Hong Kong police at a high-rise residential block early yesterday. The unemployed man is believed to have shot himself, officers said.
Police said several shots were fired during a standoff that lasted around an hour. They said the man was found lying on the floor when police burst into his apartment.
Television showed a number of armed police tactical unit officers, some of them wearing helmets and others with gas masks and bulletproof vests, arriving in the Choi Hung district during the morning, while residents and journalists were shepherded away.
At one point, two officers were lowered by ropes down the exterior of the block to the floor housing the suspect’s flat.
During the standoff, a man was seen standing at the edge of a window, pointing a gun to his head and mumbling, before moving back inside.
“The sound of a door being broken down was followed by a number of suspected shots, with smoke and sparks seen coming from the flat at Lok Shing House, Kowloon West,” the South China Morning Post reported on its website.
Superintendent Chau Hin-hung said police had eventually forced their way into the man’s apartment but found him unconscious on the floor.
“We believe he committed suicide, presumably with his own gun,” he told reporters.
He identified the man as a 51-year-old jobless Hong Kong resident who was a suspect in an earlier murder.
A 43-year-old air conditioning technician was gunned down at a lift lobby on Saturday in the same block following a heated argument.
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