TST shooter, an off-duty policeman, fired weapon used to kill constable five years ago
An off-duty policeman shot two uniformed constables, killing one of them, with a gun stolen from and used to kill an officer five years ago, police sources said yesterday.
The off-duty constable, Tsui Po-ko, 35, was also killed in the shootout in Tsim Sha Tsui in the early hours of yesterday.
Police sources said evidence at the scene suggested that Tsui fired the first shots using the service revolver taken from constable Leung Shing-yan, who was murdered in 2001 after he answered a bogus noise complaint in Tsuen Wan.
The gun was found in the blood-spattered underpass where Tsui died along with Constable Tsang Kwok-hang, 33. Tsang's partner, Sin Ka-keung, 28, remained in a serious condition in the intensive-care unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital last night.
Investigators were having difficulty piecing together exactly what happened, because Constable Sin, the only witness, had not been able to talk to them.