A gruesome murder took place in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar where a man was stabbed during a video call with his wife.
The suspect, identified as 37-year-old S, stabbed his brother-in-law, identified as 37-year-old IW, when the latter was having bakso (meatball soup) near his home in Tallo district on Saturday. At the time, IW happened to be on a video call with his wife, when S stabbed him out of nowhere with a badik (traditional Bugis dagger).
S then ran away to his parents’ house before he was eventually captured.
Tallo sub-precinct chief Saharuddin said the stabbing came after a quarrel between S and IW’s wives. S was reportedly offended by the quarrel and wanted to take revenge on IW by stabbing him.
“The victim died with a stab wound on the left side of his chest,” Saharuddin said in a written statement yesterday.
“A few minutes [after the stabbing] their family immediately called the victim, and they received the news that the victim had been stabbed and brought to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.”
Police promptly pursued and apprehended S after they were alerted to the incident. The suspect’s badik was confiscated as evidence.
S has been charged with assault resulting in death under Indonesia’s Criminal Code (KUHP), which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
