
Thursday, 24th April 2008 - 10:24CET
UPDATED: Man killed in bar shooting incident
A 49-year-old man died and another was injured, in a shooting incident at the Butterfly Bar in Birkirkara, this morning. The victim, Raymond Agius, was a resident of Bahar ic-Caghaq.
Eye witnesses said two hooded men, at least one of whom was armed with a pistol, entered the bar and opened fire on one of the men in the bar. The second appeared to have been hit accidentally. The victim died as he was being rushed to hospital.
The incident happened at about 9.15 a.m. Policemen and forensic experts including ballistics expert Brigadier Maurice Calleja, are currently on the scene. An inquiry is being conducted by Magistrate Consuelo Scerri-Herrera.




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Police should investigate well the past of the victim to link any suspects. They should also study the CCTV of the area in the past weeks, days and hours as usually killers like these tend to visit the site on the same hour they plan to murder plus they surely were in the area minutes prior to the murder as they wanted to be sure that the victim was inside the bar always excluding the fact that somebody informed them, in this case checking mobile calls made by frequenters of this snack bar can be of some help.
Very difficult case to solve indeed, if solved one will also hope that our Courts will not hand out the now infamous suspended sentences, as they are doing lately as if they were pastizzi. Good luck to our police.