Shooting victim's family meets Mulyono

Shooting victim's family meets Mulyono

JAKARTA (JP): The family of 31-year-old Yudianto, the man
wrongfully shot to death by West Jakarta Police mobile
detectives, demanded that city police not only detain and
question the officer who pulled the trigger, but the entire West
Jakarta mobile detectives unit.

"I have already assured Yudianto's family, that we are looking
into this case thoroughly ... the Police have already admitted
their mistake, and apologized profusely for it," City Police
Chief Insp. Gen. Mulyono Sulaiman told reporters, after a meeting
with Yudianto's family at city police headquarters.

Yudianto's brother Subhan Gatot, told reporters that Mulyono
had already been "very kind" to Yudianto's family.

"He seems to be doing all he can, and is very remorseful. We
have told him not to only concentrate on what the shooter -- the
policeman who shot my brother -- had to tell police. Police
should reinvestigate the crime scene," Subhan told reporters.

As reported earlier, a court-martial is awaiting Brig.
Pambudi, an officer of the West Jakarta Police SWAT team, who
wrongfully shot Yudianto to death, on Jl. Raya Semanan in
Kalideres, West Jakarta, on Feb. 28.

City police spokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bahrul Alam earlier said
that an internal affairs investigation of the shooting had
concluded that Brig. Pambudi, had wrongfully shot Cengkareng
resident Yudianto, in the back of the head.

Anton, however, failed to answer why Yudianto was shot in the
head, instead of the leg, as police procedure dictates, and why
his body was badly bruised and beaten at the time of his death.
Witnesses said that prior to Yudianto's body being driven to the
National Police Kramat Jati Hospital following the shooting,
there were no bruises on his body.

The spokesman identified suspected bank robber Ashari, 32, who
was arrested before the incident, as the person who allegedly
pointed out Yudianto as a fellow robber to the police, which
ultimately led to the fatal shooting. (ylt)