Hong Kong subway shootout in 2006 leaves 2 policemen dead – SCMP archive

This article was first published on March 18, 2006by Benjamin Wong and Clifford LoOfficers shot with stolen police gunAn 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 (March 17, 2006).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.