Police investigations have found that the recent shooting in Athurugiriya in which two people, including businessman Surendra Wasantha Perera alias ‘Club Wasantha’, were killed had been orchestrated by organized criminals overseas and carried out by individuals in Sri Lanka.
The Police state seven suspects, including the owner of the tattoo studio in which the shooting occurred, have been arrested in connection to the shooting.
The suspects are two who had brought the car used for the shooting from Ambalangoda to Athurugiriya, one suspect who had kept the car in an area near his house before the shooting, and one suspect who had kept a van that was used to help the shooters escape.
They have been identified as residents of Ahungalla, Balapitiya, Ganemulla, Ambalangoa, and Beliatta aged 24, 27, 28, 31, and 37 years old.
The Western Province South Crimes Division apprehended the suspects yesterday on charges of having aided the shooting.
The investigating officers have also seized the car and van used with fake number plates to carry out the shooting, and the mobile phone of the owner of the tattoo studio.
Two people were killed and four others, including a female singer, were injured in the shooting that was carried out at a tattoo studio in Athurugiriya on Monday. (Newswire)
