Gun in murder-suicide case is not licensed: Police (Updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: A pistol used by a man who took his life after gunning down his ex-wife at a law firm at Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman here on Friday was unlicensed and illegally obtained.
Kuala Lumpur police CID chief SAC Rusdi Md Isa said today that the 51-year-old man did not possess a firearm license to carry the Norinco pistol he had used in the incident.
He said the recovered pistol was sent to forensic police for a ballistics test to ascertain if there was a record of it being used elsewhere in past criminal cases.
Rusdi said the motive behind the case is still under probe but early findings showed that an altercation between the man and his 46-year-old ex-wife escalated to the killing.
"We will record statements from the relevant people to ascertain what led to the attack," he told theSun.
Sources said just hours before the incident, a daughter of the couple had lodged a police report in Damansara alleging her father was harassing her mother and the rest of the family.
It was the second police report lodged against the man since 2012.
Five years ago, the man's ex-wife lodged a police report alleging similar disturbance from him.
Sources said the man had several times in the past showed up at his ex-wife's office and created a commotion.
It is learnt that the woman and her husband of over 20 years went separate ways five years ago and had since been at loggerheads.
Sources said the man, who was a debt collector had remarried after the divorce.
He had a previous criminal record for armed assault committed in the 80's and had since the divorce harassed his ex-wife who works as law firm staff and their three children, apparently in an attempt to reconcile with the family.
However, on Friday at about 3pm, the man, armed with a pistol, parang and firecrackers headed out to the woman's office and asked a receptionist for her.
Sources said when she stepped out to meet him, the suspect without uttering a word, whipped out a pistol and fired four gunshots, two which hit his ex-wife, killing her at the scene.
Witnesses told police that the man set off the firecrackers he brought along before placing the muzzle of the firearm on his temple and discharging the gun. He was killed instantly.
The couple leave behind three daughter in their 20's.