2007 08: Boy, 14, found dead with gunshot wound

The Star Online. News. Nation. Sunday August 12, 2007

MIRI: A 14-year-old boy from a rural longhouse some 100km south of here was found dead in a farm hut with a gaping gunshot wound on his neck yesterday.

The boy, believed to be the son of a farmer, was from a longhouse located deep in the Beleru sub-district, more than three hours by road from here.

Miri police received an SOS yesterday afternoon, from members of the farming community saying the boy had been found shot to death.

An initial probe revealed that villagers heard a gunshot sometime in the afternoon and found the boy dead in the hut.

His body was still in a sitting position and he was holding a hunting rifle. It is also learnt the villagers found a note with some handwritten words.