Glass panes and glass doors of hotels, shopping malls, banks and fast food outlets were riddled with single bullet hole or some even shattered by in the shots fired by unknown people between midnight and 1am.
No reports of any injuries were received so far.
Police have yet to make an official statement over the incident that is spreading within social media.
They have yet to identify the person or people involved as security officials did not rule out disgruntled individual or possibly underworld groups might be involved in the shooting.
Suspicion is that an air rifle was used in the shootings.
Cops suspect KK ‘shooting spree’ work of juveniles, no Sulu links
KOTA KINABALU: Police have ruled out the Kota Kinabalu ‘shooting spree’ was in any way linked to Sulu armed group or the ongoing Lahad Datu intrusion trial.
The shooting at more than 20 establishments including hotels and banks between midnight and 1am Saturday was the work of at least six people in three cars using airguns and marbles as bullets, said Kota Kinabalu police chief Asst Comm Jauteh Jikun.
"We are investigating on some leads,’’ he said.
Jauteh said that police believed air-guns were used because if it were catapults, it would not have been able to break the glass doors and window panes of the establishments.
"I urge the public not to panic.
"This is the work of budak nakal (juveniles),’’ he told a press conference at 1pm.
He said anyone with information on the incident should immediately contact police at its Hotline 088221191.
The places hit in Kota Kinabalu are:
Karamunsing area-
1. Agro Bank
2. Standard Chatered Bank
3. Wisma Merdeka
4. Behind Hotel Hyatt
5. Entrance KK Plaza
6. Maxis Warisan Square
7. Gate B Warisan Square
8. Malar Hotel in KK Times Square
9. Aeropod KK Times Square
10. Office of Sutera Avenue KK Times Square
11. Office of MAA Api-api
12. Entrance Wisma Sedco wawasan plaza
Luyang area-
1. DM Hotel Damai
2. Ambank Damai
3. Southern Station Damai
4. Pizza Hutt Damai
5. Pearl Karaoke Damai
6. Secret Recipe City Mall
7. Hair Made Saloon City Mall
8. Hair Shampoo Saloon City Mall
Inanam area-
1.Public Bank
2. Cimb Bank
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