A Vietnam court has given capital punishment to a man who fatally shot an anti-drug police officer in the northern province of Thanh Hoa in February.  

The provincial People’s Court on Friday sentenced 40-year-old Sung A Chia to death on charges of murder while giving life imprisonment to his three accomplices, Sung A Tong, Thao A Minh and Phang A Pao, aged 21 to 30, for the same offense.

All the four men resided in the province’s Muong Lat District. 

On February 6, the district police unit assigned five officers, including Major Vi Van Luan, to conduct patrols to detect people engaged in storage, transport and trade of drugs.

When the team came to Muong Ly Commune, they spotted Chia and Tong standing on a road, with guns in their hands.

The team, with Luan taking the lead, approached the two suspicious men and asked them to show their personal papers in suspecting that they were drug traffickers.

Chia suddenly fired a bullet at Luan’s chest while Tong also opened fire on the police team.

At that time, Minh and Pao, who were on a nearby mountain, began shooting down to support Chia and Tong to escape the scene.

Luan was taken immediately to a hospital but he died on the way.

Two days later, local police arrested Tong and they subsequently detained Chia and Minh. On May 18, Pao turned himself to police. 

In addition to the sentences given to the defendants, the court ordered Chia and his accomplices to pay damages to Luan’s family and give supports to the two children of the victim.

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