Kuala Lumpur, Jan 17th - The culprit who threw a chair from an upper floor of a block of People's Housing Programme (PPR) apartments in Pantai Dalam that killed a secondary school student will face a murder charge once caught by the police.

Kuala Lumpur CID chief SAC Rusdi Mohd Isa said the case, which was initially classified under Section 304 A of the Penal Code for causing death by negligence, has been reclassified as murder, with the suspect facing the mandatory death sentence.

"Investigators have begun interviewing residents and the investigations will go on indefinitely and tracing the culprit is only a matter of time," Rusdi said.

Police failed to find any fingerprints on the chair and are working on other leads to track down the perpetrator.

The victim, identified as 15-year-old, S. Satiwaran, a Form Three student of SMK La Salle in Petaling Jaya, was accompanying his mother, 45, who had just finished grocery shopping.

As they were about to enter the apartment block at about 8.30pm when an office chair, believed to have been thrown from one of the upper floors, crashed down and struck Sathiwaran.

Kritika Mohan, 10, putting up a picture of her cousin Sathiwaran at the victim's house yesterday.

"There have been numerous incidents of irresponsible occupants simply throwing garbage from the corridor balconies, which even resulted in injuries to whoever it hit below. But not like this," she said.

- The Sun