Police Investigation Into Robbery-Shootings Yields No Suspects
Police have yet to identify any suspects in a pair of vicious robbery-shootings in Phnom Penh late last month that left an American expatriate and a Japanese tourist hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said Monday. At about 7 p.m. on September 27, American construction consultant Maurice Law, 57, and his wife, Debbie, were walking home in Chamkar Mon district when two men approached them on a motorcycle, robbed them at gunpoint then shot Mr. Law in the groin before speeding away. The following evening at about 8 p.m., Sakiko Takayanagi, a Japanese tourist, was shot in the leg when she resisted a robbery, also by two men on a motorcycle, while walking near the Night Market in Daun Penh district. “Since the shootings occurred, military police forces have cooperated with municipal police to find the suspects…but the gunmen are still at large.” said military police spokesman Brigadier General Kheng Tito. …
Saing Soenthrith and Ben Woods
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