Narcotics officer found dead with gunshot wound

Narcotics officer found dead with gunshot wound

TANGERANG (JP): A police narcotics detective was found dead
with a gunshot wound to his stomach, at his rented house in the
Legok district here on Monday night.

His wife was also in critical condition with a similar wound.
Both victims were found in their home in the Dasana Indah housing
complex in Bojong Nangka.

No Tangerang or Jakarta police officers were willing to
discuss the incident.

Senior forensic expert Mun'im Idries from Cipto Mangunkusumo
General Hospital in Central Jakarta made a preliminary judgment,
saying that the detective had committed suicide by shooting
himself after shooting his wife with the same gun, after an
argument between the couple.

Chief of the Tangerang police precinct, Lt. Col. Pudji
Hartono, refused to reveal any details of the shootings of Chief
Sgt. Kusnadi Seta, 31, and wife Intan Krisantia Utami, 25.

"The case is being handled by Jakarta police detectives,"
Pudji told reporters.

However, he confirmed that his men had retrieved a gun and two
bullets found at the scene.

"We have confiscated the Colt (handgun) that allegedly
belonged to Kusnadi and two bullets believed to have been fired
from the gun," officer Pudji said.

As of late evening, Intan was still being treated in the
intensive care unit of the Soekanto Police Hospital in Kramat
Jati, East Jakarta, for the gunshot wound to her stomach.

The mother of a three-year-old boy underwent surgery, but
doctors were worried because of her weak physical condition.

"Doctors have already operated on Intan and taken a bullet
from her back, but she's still not allowed to be visited," one of
the nurses at the hospital said.

Kusnadi, an officer in the Jakarta Police drugs and narcotics
unit, died of one shot in his upper stomach, the bullet hitting
his kidney and heart, said Mun'im.

According to the forensics expert, there were possibilities
that Kusnadi was stressed over his work load, which triggered the
dispute with his wife.

"It's not an easy job to be a police detective. It's
stressful, and if the stress has reached its peak, even a trivial
dispute can cause fatal anger," said Mun'im, who is widely known
to have a close relationship with police detectives.

But his hypothesis was opposed by the victim's colleagues, who
could not understand why their friend would use his gun to end
his and his wife's lives.

The couple, they said, seemed to have a happy marriage.

"He seemed fine with his relatively new marriage, and the
couple, who have one boy, seemed so happy. But who knows what
happened inside their house," one of Kusnadi's friends, who asked
for anonymity, said.

According to the victims' neighbors, Kusnadi was seen chatting
with his neighbors at 9 p.m., who then heard two gunshots from
Kusnadi's house not long after Kusnadi entered the home.

"The first shot was loud, while the second was a little bit
softer," said one of the neighbors.

"We rushed to the house as soon as we heard the first shot,"
added the man, who refused to be named.

As the neighbors broke into the house, they found Intan about
to collapse.

"I was shot," a neighbor quoted Intan as saying before she
collapsed.

Antara quoted one of Kusnadi's elder sisters, Maryati, as
saying that the officer had told his family on Monday afternoon
that he was not feeling very well, and he asked for medicine.

"After taking the medicine, he took a rest and asked not to be
disturbed because he was really stressed," Maryati said.

Both victims were rushed to the nearby Qadar hospital, but
Kusnadi died en route.

Kusnadi was buried by his family on Tuesday in a military
ceremony at the local Peuseur public cemetery, after his body
underwent a postmortem examination at the Cipto Mangunkusumo
hospital. (emf/41)