Hong Kong policeman shoots three times at driver trying to run him over in Tuen Mun
- The 24-year-old was hit in the arm and arrested
- Superintendent says officer had ‘no other choice’ but to shoot
A policeman shot three times at a man who was trying to run him over on Sunday morning, after an operation in northern Hong Kong turned violent.
Marco Philippe Cuzet, a French-Chinese Hong Kong ID card holder, was hit in the arm, arrested and sent to hospital.
According to police, at about 2.30am on Sunday officers saw a suspicious vehicle driving along Tuen Mun Road. They chased it to a car park at Yau Oi Estate, a public estate in Tuen Mun.
After checking out the scene, armed officers stood guard at the car park’s exit, waiting for the vehicle to come out. A minute later, the car emerged and stopped at the car park gate.
“Our officer tried to approach the vehicle, but he slipped and fell,” Superintendent Chan Yi-ping, of Crime Operations New Territories North, told reporters.