Tan Sri shoots dead clinic robber

KUALA LUMPUR: “I have no regrets shooting the robber dead. He was very aggressive and threatened my life. I pumped three shots into him after he tried to slash me a second time. If I did not have my gun, it could have been me who would be dead.”

These were the words that Pahang Chinese Chamber of Commerce chairman Tan Sri Lam Kam Sang said yesterday, a night after he killed one of three robbers who held up a private clinic in Cheras.

The robbers, armed with knives and a parang, grabbed cash and valuables from a doctor and two nurses before turning their attention on the patients.

They pushed their luck too far by going after Lam, 68, who happened to be armed with an automatic pistol.

Despite being unwell, the businessman, who is also MCA Raub division chief, already had his finger on the trigger of his Glock 9mm and warned the robbers that he would shoot if they did not leave.

They lunged at him instead and he fired several shots.

Cheras OCPD Assistant Commissioner of Police Mohan Singh said the men fled the clinic in Taman Pertama at around 10pm.

“But one of them was found dead about 30m away with gunshot wounds in his knee, abdomen and buttocks,” he said.

Police recovered a knife and a Nissan car outside the clinic. “The car was stolen during another robbery at a clinic in Kajang on Wednesday,” said ACP Mohan Singh.

Lam said he had no regrets killing the robber, adding that he went to the clinic because he felt unwell after dinner.

Meanwhile, nurse Litya Gunasegaran, 24, said: “Everyone was shocked when the three men burst in. They were carrying knives and a parang and held it at people’s necks, shouting ‘kasi wang!’ (give money).”

“One of them just snatched my necklace and went to another person,” she added.

“That’s when I heard the shots.”