Police fire shot, arrest man for wielding chopper at crowd
A dispute over a sugarcane drink led to a gunshot at the Boon Lay
hawker centre.
Police fired a shot and later arrested a man who was earlier seen
wielding a chopper at bystanders in the hawker centre.
Witnesses said it all started just before 2pm in front of a
sugarcane stall.
A man, in his 40s, had approached two women and a toddler for a sip
of their sugarcane juice.
He got upset when the women tried to shoo him away.
Bystanders then saw him running into a nearby food stall.
"I came over and told him to stop. He insisted on taking the knife
and glared at me. I got scared and ran away," said stallholder Lee
Sek Kiong.
With the chopper in his hand, the man was next seen charging
towards two police officers who were called to the scene.
Despite the officers' warnings, the man continued to advance on
them.
One of the officers then fired a shot on the ground as the other
apprehended the man and placed him under arrest.
Police said no one was injured.
Stallholders told Channel NewsAsia that they started seeing the man
loitering around the market only in the last two weeks.
They described him as someone in his late 40s, mentally unstable
and has a habit of eating customers' leftover
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Those aunties will say: BUAY taser ar???
