Officer dies of stab wounds at fish market

Officer dies of stab wounds at fish market

JAKARTA (JP): A street tough stabbed and killed an on-duty
police officer he feared was coming to arrest him for theft at
the fish auction market in Muara Baru, North Jakarta.

Captain Syaiful, head of Operational Affairs of the On-the-
Alert City Police Unit, told reporters yesterday that the victim,
Corporal Johannes Jeffry Woworuntu, 27, was stabbed to death on
Tuesday evening.

A senior officer of the Tanjung Priok Port Police, who refused
to be named, said Corporal Johannes was on a routine patrol at
the fish market at around 10:30 p.m. when an unidentified man
came towards him and suddenly stabbed him at least three times.

The suspect, identified only as Id, 20, was apprehended later
by local community members.

Based on preliminary questioning, Id said that he thought that
Johannes was assigned to arrest him for theft. Id is widely known
in the area as a pickpocket and extortionist.

"My personnel apparently failed to anticipate the sudden
attack," the senior port police officer told The Jakarta Post.

Johannes died of stab wounds to his abdomen, chest and face.

A number of senior police officers paid condolence visits to
the victim's relatives yesterday afternoon.(bsr)