Shooting of Ong Teik Kwong

Shooting of Datuk Ong Teik Kwong
Date1 December 2016
TimeAbout 19:30 MYT (11:30 UTC)
LocationTun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, Penang, Malaysia
Deaths3 deaths;
Ong Teik Kwong, Choi Hon Ming, M. Senthil
Non-fatal injuries4 injured;
Muhamad Amirul Amin Amir, Nurul Huda Abdul Aziz, Arivarni Krishnann, Lee Hong Boon
ArrestsOng's personal bodyguard, Ja'afar Halid and Lim Boon Leng
ConvictedJa'afar Halid
ConvictionsMurder (3 counts)
Attempted murder (5 counts)
Causing hurt with a weapon
SentenceDeath (2020)

Declared legally insane, discharged and acquitted (2023)

35 years imprisonment and 24 strokes of whipping (2024)

The shooting of Datuk Ong Teik Kwong occurred on 1 December 2016, on Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, Penang, Malaysia. Datuk Ong, a 32 year old businessman, was driving his car to Penang with his bodyguard and a passenger. The bodyguard, Ja'afar Halid, pulled out his gun and shot Ong. Ja'afar Halid's subsequent shooting also accidentally hit seven people at the scene, resulting in two more deaths and four injured.