Security guard captured for killing employee

Security guard captured for killing employee

JAKARTA (JP): Police have captured the man they believe to
have killed a man and injured several others at a chemical
factory on Sunday.

Maj. Tjok Made Suyasa, chief of Cakung district police, said
yesterday that Kasmari, 36, was apprehended at his home in Cakung
district at around 8 p.m. Monday.

Kasmari, who had worked as a "special" security guard at PT
Surya Agung Makmur Lestari, allegedly killed Husein, a driver of
the factory, and wounded six other drivers and conductors Monday
morning.

The suspect is not a military officer as reported earlier.

Tjok was quoted by Maj. Tasmin S., a spokesman for the city
police headquarters, as saying that Kasmari had previously been a
tough who extorted money daily from the drivers before being
hired by the factory as a security guard two years ago.

The factory apparently believed that by bringing him into the
fold he would help protect the drivers.

As reported earlier, Kasmari interrogated drivers Husein and
friends Monday morning at the factory in an effort to locate the
person responsible for the loss of certain documents from one of
the factory's trucks. The documents were reported missing last
Friday.

A soothsayer had advised Kasmari to force the drivers to drink
a glass of water before interrogating them, saying that they
could be expected to confess their guilt.

The anonymous paranormal reasoned that the driver who had lost
the document would suffer a swollen stomach if he kept lying.

However, after drinking the water, the drivers remained
healthy while they denied responsibility for the loss.

Frustrated, Kasmari then brutally attacked the drivers one by
one with a knife, killing Husein, seriously wounding Ateng, who
is Husein's brother, and slightly injuring others.

Tjok said the factory's management denied responsibility for
the brutal act because Kasmari had acted on his own initiative.
(jsk)