RAWANG: Residents at Kampung Baru Kundang were rudely awakened early today when a shootout occurred between police and armed assailants.
A resident who only wished to be known as Lim said he heard a loud sound and several shots fired in the wee hours.
"I remember waking up in a fright when I heard those loud sounds.
"I looked outside and saw a multipurpose vehicle had driven through the side fencing of my house," said the senior citizen when met at the scene.
He said he wanted to go outside and check but some men who identified themselves as policemen told him to go back inside.
"It was only later that he found out that police had been involved in a shootout with armed criminals there.
"I've lived here all my life and nothing like this has ever happened before," he said adding that the neighbourhood was usually peaceful with no untoward incident occurring there.
Meanwhile, another resident who declined to be named said his house wall was also damaged by one of the cars involved in the incident.
"There was a loud sound early in the morning, so I tried to go out and see what was going on but I was instructed to go back into my house.
"I don't really know what happened. Only that someone had been shot dead," he said.
Meanwhile, a housewife who declined to be named said she saw that police had cordonned off one of the houses in the neighbourhood.
"The man that lived in this house is one of the people involved in this case.
"He ran away when the incident occurred" she said adding people there do not mix with him because he used to have "bad habits."
A man was shot dead in the incident in Kampung Baru Kundang early this morning.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan had said a task force from the Petaling Jaya police was conducting intelligence to trace the suspect when they came across him driving a Nissan Grand Livina along Jalan KBK 4 , Rawang at around 1.15am.