On the morning of April 8, a police officer opened fire in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. A man suspected of evading police interception was shot in the right shoulder. In the incident, five other people were slightly injured or shocked, including two police officers.
The police arrested a pair of men and women in the car, including a 45-year-old man with triad background.
At about 10 am, when the police conducted a license plate recognition system operation on the Tolo Highway near Ma Liushui section in the direction of Sha Tin, they found that a private car’s license had expired and the driver did not follow the police’s instructions to stop. The police were chasing During the cut-off period, the private car had collided with 6 cars, rushed to the lights at least three times, and was stopped on Yincheng Street off the Prince of Wales Hospital.
Chief Inspector of Crime Squad, New Territories South Region, said that the police officer fired a shot at the private car after holding the gun and repeated warnings invalid, hitting the right shoulder of the driver involved, and the injured was sent to the Prince of Wales Hospital for treatment. , The current situation is stable.
The police informed that the arrested man was not the owner of the car, and the police are investigating the source of the vehicle and the identity of the owner.
The police believe that the arrested man endangered others by driving crazily for a long time, and that the police officer’s decision to fire is reasonable, legal and reasonable.
(Reporter Fan Siyi and Li Zhihua produced Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]