Hmmm.. i'm not very sure if the mata Ah Huat shot was in uniform
or not.. but this Ah Huat started off his life as a fugitive by
shooting a hawker to death after some argument over his food or
something. Then he was constantly on the run, then dunno why got 2
policemen either patrolling or looking for him, he panicked, shot
one of them and escaped. Finally got some lead so some plainclothes
POs staked out the coffeeshop he frequents in the morning, and shot
him while he was trying to pull out his gun, before he could have
his kopi-O.
The second case was in 1989? Then its probably not the case that i
saw.. cos that one i saw should be within the last 10 years one.. I
still remember the scene where the SOC was flushing him out in some
forested area late at night. They were advancing in 1 horizontal
row and apparently that guy was hiding behind the bushes, panicked,
fired a shot from his stolen mata revolver which knocked one of the
SOC boys flat onto the ground. The others went prone, and one of
them managed to nail him with his mp5. That has got to be one of
the most exciting episodes in crimewatch so far lor.
There was another gunman case featured in crimewatch and that could
be the 1989 case u were referring to, cos the episode was telecast
very long ago liao. Gunman killed a taxi driver and i can't
remember who else, finally got surrounded by a whole group of POs
in a HDB estate. He then pulled the trigger on his own head.
Another memorable gunman episode was another super old case in the
80s, in one of the earlier episodes of crimewatch. 2 guys, 1 of
them stole an m16 from his army camp, broke in to rob a house. One
of them escorted the houseowner to the bank to withdraw money and
when they returned, they killed the houseowner and strangled his
wife. One of the robbers got very guilty, locked himself in one ot
the rooms in the victims' house together with some kids and their
tuition teacher and tried shooting himself with the m16. But that
stupid bugger apparantly didn't know how to use the m16 so failed.
He then gave his IC to the tuition teacher before making his
escape.
Hiya, unfortunately nowadays crimewatch no longer has the drama of
the episodes of the past. Nowadays its either white collar crime or
some other not very exciting homicide, plus lots of crime
prevention advice, wayanging by the police elite units, or traffic
police advice.. 
