Maid killed in botched robbery

Maid killed in botched robbery

TANGERANG: Nina, 20, a housemaid who worked in the State
Secretariat Housing Complex in Panunggangan Utara subdistrict,
Pinang district of Tangerang municipality, was killed on Friday
morning during a robbery attempt.

At the same time as the victim was being taken to Tangerang
General Hospital morgue, the suspect, Eko Priyadi, 20, was rushed
to the emergency unit at the same hospital after he was attacked
by local residents.

Police chief of detectives Adj. Kustanto said the suspect, a
garbage man who lives in the complex, arrived at the house of
Nina's employers at 10:30 a.m. and asked where her employers
were.

Nina told him that the lady of the house, Titin Sumiarti, was
still teaching at state Senior High School 1 in Tangerang and
her husband Wawan Gunawan was still working at the State
Secretariat in Jakarta.

Eko then reportedly pulled out a machete and demanded that
Nina show him where her employers kept their jewelry.

Nina refused and was hit on the head with the machete and
dragged upstairs.

Gita, 14, the daughter of Titin and Wawan, who was in her bed
room and witnessed the incident. She locked her room, jumped out
the window and sought help.

Local residents soon arrived and attacked Eko, but Nina's life
could not be saved.

The suspect told the police that he wanted to rob the house
because he needed money to marry a woman in his village in
Central Java on Monday.--JP