Police find gun that killed Ferry

Police find gun that killed Ferry

PALU, Central Sulawesi: A senior police officer claimed on
Tuesday that police personnel in Palu, Central Sulawesi province,
had found a gun, believed to be central to the unsolved murder of
prosecutor Ferry Silalahi early this year.

Spokesman for the Central Sulawesi Police, Adj. Sr. Comr.
Victor D. Batara, said that the gun was seized from a man who
robbed a salesman of cigarette maker PT Djarum in Sausu district,
Parigi Moutong regency a few months ago.

After a ballistic test and questioning the suspect, police
investigators concluded that the gun had been used to kill Ferry
and rob the salesman. However, the police refused to disclose
whether the man who robbed the Djarum salesman was the same
person who shot Ferry. The man in question consistently denied
that he had killed Ferry. -- JP