Muhammad Hanafi Omar, 22, Muhammad Shamil Hafiz Shapiei, 15, and Mohd Hairul Nizam Tuah, 20, were gunned down by the police after a reported high-speed car chase in the early morning of Nov 13 in Glenmarie, Shah Alam.
The police had previously stated the youths had charged at the authorities with machetes, and were shot during the purported attack.
“The post-mortem contradicts the police version of the incident that they acted in self-defence and shot the boys, which means they would have been shot in the front,” said lawyer N Surendran (right).“However, the post-mortem report says the angle of the bullet was 45 degrees entering the forehead and exiting the back of the neck, and for the chest shot, (the bullet) similarly entered at a 45-degrees trajectory through the body.
“This indicates the victim was kneeling or in a lower position than the shooter,” he said, referring to the autopsy report on Muhammad Syamil.
Surendran said he received post-mortem reports conducted by Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah's forensic pathologist Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim on Muhammad Shamil and Mohd Hairul on Tuesday, but Muhammad Hanafi's is not ready yet.
He reiterated the cops were “lying” about acting in self-defence and lambasted Selangor acting police chief A Thaiveegan for labelling the youths as “seasoned criminals”, who were allegedly involved in several armed robberies in the state.
An autopsy on Muhammad Shamil concluded that he died from two injuries consistent with gunshot wounds.
According to the forensic report, the first injury mark was on Muhammad Shamil's forehead, and the second, on the right side of the chest.
“Both gunshot wounds were from 45 degrees penetration into the back and right side of the body.
'No injuries to indicate self-defence'
“There were no injuries to indicate self-defence,” said the report.
It added that 46milligram (mg) of ethyl alcohol - usually found in alcoholic beverages - was found in per 100mg of Muhammad Shamil's blood and that there was gunpowder residue on the chest wound.
The chemist's report further asserted that there was also gunpowder residue on the victim's jacket.
Similarly, in Mohd Hairul's autopsy report, the pathologist indicated that the cause of death was gunshot injuries to the head and chest.
“Post-mortem examination showed that he received two shots, one at the left side of the head and (exited) at the right side of the head.
“The other shot was on the front part of the left side of the chest and (exited) at the back of the right side of the chest,” stated the report.
The report indicated that the bullets wounds came from “a single-fired rifled weapon such as a pistol”.
“There was no evidence to show that the weapon was fired during contact or at a near distance,” it added.
The youths were executed in cold blood, said Surendran, as the medical evidence showed that there could be no other conclusions.
“In (Mohd) Hairul's case his right eye is bruised, which shows that he was arrested and beaten because there is no reason for the police to beat up a dead body, so they must have hit him when he was alive,” said Surendran, which conflicted with the police version of events.
The cops could have acted in such a way as to incapacitate their assailants since they were said to be rushing at the cops withparangs (machetes), he said.
Muhammad Shamil's mother Norhafizah Mad Razali, who was unable to hold back tears, burst out that her suspicions that her son was “mercilessly killed” were true.
“He is only 15-years-old, he is not a murderer nor a criminal,” she pleaded.
“One shot would have been enough to stop an elephant, but no, they used two, and aimed to kill, instead of aiming for the legs or shoulders,” said Surendran.
'Did the bullet bend in mid-air?'
Although they have not obtain the post-mortem report for Muhammad Hanafi, from visual identification of the body, there were two shots to the right side of his head and one at his torso, described Surendran.
“The police said they shot from the front. So the bullet bent and hit the boys heads at the side of the head? It's totally inconsistent,” he said.
Backed by the forensic reports, Surendran is confident that the “three youths were arrested, taken into custody, made to kneel and executed”.
Following the evidence they have, Surendran said that Attorney-General's Chambers has to act on it by charging the cops involved with murder.
His call was backed by PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar and the party's political bureau member R Sivarasa, with the latter also demanding that a royal commission be set up to probe the shooting.
“We are giving them (AG's Chambers) unprecedented evidence so I don't understand why if they don't charge (the police) with murder,” said Surendran.
According to human rights group Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram), 88 people were killed in police shootings last year, compared to 2009 when there were only 13 such cases.
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