Adiguna Sutowo named sole suspect in shooting of waiter
Adiguna Sutowo named sole suspect in shooting of waiter
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Jakarta Police has named Adiguna Sutowo as the sole suspect
in a fatal shooting early on Saturday at the Hilton Hotel's Fluid
Club.
Yohanes Berchmans Haerudy Natong, or Rudy, a waiter at the
club, was killed in the incident.
City police chief of detectives Sr. Comr. Mathius Salempang
announced the suspect on Sunday, adding that the police had
detained Adiguna, a son of the former president director of state
oil and gas company Pertamina, Ibnu Sutowo.
"The suspect did not confess until today, but we have strong
evidence in this case. We are keeping him in our custody,"
Salempang told the press.
Police grilled Adiguna from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. over 25
independent points.
Salempang said investigators had also questioned two
eyewitnesses who apparently saw Adiguna shoot Rudy in the head.
Adiguna's lawyer Amir Karyatin said his client refused to sign
the case file, saying that he did not kill the waiter.
Amir claimed that Adiguna had instead helped Rudy, taking the
injured waiter to the hotel's health clinic. The lawyer also said
his client was not at the Fluid Club, but at the Laguna Lounge.
The incident allegedly took place at 3:30 a.m. after the New
Year celebration. Witnesses said Adiguna quarreled with Rudy, who
was a trainee waiter, when Rudy told him that his credit card had
been rejected and asked for another one.
The suspect reportedly took out a gun and shot Rudy, who died
instantly from a cranial wound that entered his right temple and
exited on the left side of his neck.
The case was previously being handled by the Central Jakarta
Police, but the Jakarta Police took over it due to the sensitive
and high-profiled nature of the case.
Salempang said Adiguna was drunk when he pulled the trigger.
"He is still under the influence of alcohol."
He said the police had found a bullet in Rudy's body and two
bloodstained towels in Adiguna's hotel room.
"We have sent the evidence to the National Police forensics
department for analysis," he said.
Rudy, the eldest of seven children of Alfons da Gomez and
Mariam, was a student at Bung Karno University, and was to
graduate in April.
He had been working for a month at the hotel, making a living
to support himself and two younger sisters, who share a rented
house in the capital.
Rudy's body was flown on Sunday to his hometown in Flores,
East Nusa Tenggara, for burial.