Two people finger Adiguna as shooter

Two people finger Adiguna as shooter

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Two more witnesses have identified businessman Adiguna Sutowo as
the killer of waiter Yohannes "Rudy" Berchmans Haerudy Natong at
the Hilton Hotel's Fluid Bar on Jan. 1.

Cut Nina, a bartender on duty on New Year's Eve, told the
court on Thursday that she was standing two meters from Rudy when
he was shot.

"When I first heard the loud explosion, I didn't realize that
it was a gun being fired. After Rudy fell and I approached him, I
saw a man in a long-sleeved white shirt hiding a gun in his
pocket. That man is the defendant," Nina told the court, adding
that Adiguna did not seem flustered at the time.

Nina, 23, said she heard Novia Herdiana, also known as Tinul,
try to intervene in an argument Adiguna and Rudy had shortly
before the shooting, but did not hear the rest of the
conversation.

Another witness, Fluid Club and Lounge general manager Yerry
Eka Nugraha also testified on Thursday that three employees had
told him right after the incident that it was Adiguna who shot
Rudy.

"My marketing manager, Tommy, and a security guard told me
that Rudy was shot and it was Adiguna Sutowo who shot him," Yerry
said, explaining that he was not in the bar at time of the
shooting.

Yerry added that he then rushed to the bar and found Rudy on
the floor bleeding.

He also said that Werner Saferna, or Wewen, who was still at
the bar, also told him that it was Adiguna who did the shooting,
which took place around 5 a.m. on Jan. 1.

"First, I thought Wewen did it. So I asked him, 'Did you shoot
Rudy?' and he answered, 'No, it was Adiguna, he just went out the
exit door'," Yerry said.

"I saw a hole in Rudy's head. After that, I carried him to the
hotel medical center," Yerry said.

He added that on the way to the Sutowo Medical Service just
off the lobby of the hotel, a man came up to him and helped him
carry Rudy's body.

"He walked beside me, holding Rudy's neck, while I held Rudy's
back. Later, when I asked a Hotel Hilton staffer who the guy was
who helped me, they told me the man was Adiguna," the 35-year-old
said.

When asked by the prosecutors why security guards at the hotel
had not discovered Adiguna's gun, Yerry said that he was not sure
whether Adiguna had gone through security check before entering
the club since he might have been considered a VIP guest.

"We trusted security procedures applied by the hotel
management. In theory, everyone has to go through security
checks, but in reality the procedure is not applied to several
VIPs," he said, clarifying that VIPs included the owner of the
Hilton Hotel, his relatives and his colleagues.

Adiguna Sutowo, the brother of the owner of the hotel, Ponco
Sutowo, did not comment on the testimony of either witness.

In the same courtroom a week earlier, Werner Saferna, who
removed the murder weapon from the crime scene only to hand it
over to the police a few days later, had testified that Adiguna
pulled the trigger.

The 47-year-old Adiguna is charged with unpremeditated murder
and illegal possession of a gun, which carry a 15-year prison
term and a life sentence respectively. (006)