Just a few days into the Year of the Rabbit, a police shooting occurred in Peng Chau on the third day of the Lunar New Year, "Chi Kou" (24th).
Checking the data, in addition to the many cases of shooting by police officers during the anti-amendment movement in 2019, since 2007, under normal circumstances, including one case last night, at least 19 cases of police officers shooting and subduing suspects occurred. 5 dead and 6 injured; another suspect committed suicide by swallowing a gun.
Among them, 11 cases occurred after 2018. In the past few years, only last year had no similar incidents. It is expected that not long after 2022, there will be another police gunshot.
▼March 16, 2019▼ The police shot and killed the knifeman at Jiabao Supermarket in Yau Ma Tei
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Although the number of police shootings has increased significantly in the past few years, only the suspect in the "Jiabao Case" in 2019 was killed. Before that, suspects were shot dead, which can be traced back to 2014, 2012, 2009, and 2007.
On March 16, 2019, a 54-year-old man stabbed a 50-year-old male manager of Jiabao Supermarket in Yau Ma Tei with a knife. During the stop by the police of the Emergency Unit (EU), he shot the suspect in the left abdomen. He was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment and confirmed die.
In addition to the "Jiabao case", nothing has caused more sensation in recent years than the shooting of the first female police officer in 2018.
On November 7 of that year, a decoration worker brandished a knife at two police officers at MTR Sham Shui Po Station. A female police officer shot and subdued them. The suspect was shot in the abdomen and injured.
▼November 7, 2018▼ The first shooting case of a female police officer injured a man with a knife in MTR Sham Shui Po Station
In the past police shooting cases, many of them captured the occupants in order to subdue suspicious vehicles.
The most recent case was on April 8, 2021. A private car fled after the police revealed that its license had expired on Tolo Harbor Highway. When the two parties drove for more than 8 kilometers to the opposite side of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin, the private car tried to hit the road. The traffic police chief who was chasing the vehicle shot and injured the driver's right shoulder and subdued him.
In addition, on May 12, 2019, when the police intercepted a suspicious private car of Mercedes-Benz on Tuen Mun Highway, the car fled to the parking lot of Aizhi Building, Youai Village, and the French driver tried to hit the policeman.
A police sergeant fired three shots, hitting the rear windshield of the Mercedes and the driver's left forearm.
▼April 8, 2021▼ Police shot and wounded a suspicious driver on Tolo Harbor Highway
▼May 12, 2019▼ Suspicious Pingzhi fled in Tuen Mun, a French driver and a police officer shot and hit his uniform
▼Police shooting cases since 2007 (excluding cases during the anti-extradition law movement)
January 24, 2023: Two police officers were attacked while handling noise complaints at a unit on Wing On Road, Pengzhou. One of the male police officers was chased by a "fork neck" and fell down. He fired three shots and hit the Filipino male suspect. , he was shot in the hand and waist and sent to the hospital.
April 8, 2021: A private car fled after the police revealed that its license had expired on the Tolo Harbor Highway. The traffic sergeant shot and wounded the driver in the right shoulder and subdued him.
February 3, 2021: A private car in Fu Heng Village, Tai Po was suspected of avoiding investigation and tried to rush towards the police. A police officer fired a shot and hit the windshield of the private car to stop it. Two men and one woman were arrested on the spot.
April 3, 2020: 4 knife robbers robbed and stole a "white brand car". When they fled to Hongyuan Road, Tai Po, they ran into the police. A police officer shot and hit the right side of the car, and finally succeeded in 4 People caught in one catch.
December 3, 2019: The “Hit Team” of the Criminal Intelligence Division of the police smashed a huge robbery case. A suspicious private car rammed into the police. The police shot and hit the A-pillar of the private car. Seven people were arrested and no one was injured.
November 6, 2019: During the burglary at Kwai Wo Road, Kwai Chung, plainclothes police found two thieves stealing license plates. During the period, they fired three shots and subdued a man. The man was shot twice and arrested.
June 15, 2019: A private car illegally dropped off passengers on the double yellow line in the underground of the Xin Yuen Long Center. It was spotted by the patrolling traffic police and attempted to drive the car into the police officer.
The police fired two shots to stop it.
May 12, 2019: When the police intercepted a suspicious private car of Mercedes-Benz on Tuen Mun Highway, the car fled to the parking lot of Aizhi Building, You Ai Village, and the French driver tried to hit the police officer.
A police sergeant fired three shots, hitting the rear windshield of the Mercedes and the driver's left forearm.
March 16, 2019: In Jiabao Supermarket in Yau Ma Tei, a 54-year-old man stabbed a 50-year-old male manager with a knife, and shot the suspect on the left side of the abdomen while being stopped by the Emergency Unit (EU) police. He was sent to the hospital After rescue, he was confirmed dead.
November 7, 2018: A decoration worker brandished a knife at two police officers at Sham Shui Po MTR Station. A female police officer shot and subdued them. The suspect was shot in the abdomen and injured.
This is the first female police shooting case.
August 30, 2018: A police sergeant opened fire on Lam Kam Road in Tai Po to stop the car theft. No one was injured.
July 31, 2018: When the police stopped a suspicious private car in Tuen Mun, an anti-triad officer shot and wounded the driver's right foot. The suspect escaped afterwards and then sought medical treatment by himself.
October 2, 2016
: Two groups of South Asians fought with knives at the junction of Parkes Street and Nanjing Street in Yau Ma Tei. Two police officers fired four shots to stop it. A South Asian man was shot in the thigh.
February 8, 2016
: During the riots in Mong Kok, a traffic policeman fired two warning shots into the sky in downtown Mong Kok, no one was injured.
June 5, 2014
: "𡃁Model" Li Yuetong's father, Li Deren, shot and killed a neighbor in Qiqing Village, and the police fired two shots to stop him.
Li's father returned fire, and later suspected suicide by swallowing the gun.
May 5, 2014
: He Shitong, a 21-year-old man, went to Hongya Court in Lantian to look for his wife who had run away from home. During this period, he was emotional and showed his knife in front of the police. He was shot and killed by the police three times.
May 11, 2012
: When a traffic policeman was patrolling Qingshan Road, he saw five gangsters chasing and beheading a man. After the gun warning failed, one of the gangsters swung a knife at each other. The traffic police shot one of them The 36-year-old murderer Guo Yongji shot to death.
March 17, 2009
: Police officers were attacked by Nan Yahan Limbu when they were investigating a nuisance case at the Ho Man Tin Service Reservoir. After using batons and pepper spray to stop them, they shot him twice and killed him.
January 4, 2007
: The police encountered resistance when intercepting a man in Shek Po Village, Tin Shui Wai. The suspect attacked the police officer with a kitchen knife. The police officer was wounded and shot twice, killing the 47-year-old suspect Shen Changzhong.
Peng Chau Shooting Case｜The male policeman was shot three times by a "forked neck" while investigating the case, and then passed out police injured
