A police report was made on the incident at 3.32pm by a neighbour of the victim.
The neighbour, Laurence Michael, said he was awoken from his sleep at his aunty's house by a gunshot.
The report said that the victim’s mother ran over to his house to alert him that her daughter had been shot.
Michael then went over to the house and found that the victim was lying motionless on the floor.
Serian police chief Deputy Supt Aswandy Anis confirmed the incident.
It is understood that the victim was two months pregnant.
It is said that the suspect is an inspector based in Belaga.
Serian
Town in Malaysia
Serian is a town, and the capital of the Serian Division separated on 11 April 2015 from Samarahan Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is located about 40 miles from Kuching. Sub-district headquarters towns are Siburan and Tebedu. Wikipedia
Weather: 77°F (25°C), Wind S at 2 mph (3 km/h), 98% Humidity
Population: 90,763 (2010)
Based on earlier investigations, the suspect had walked into the room of the victim and shot at her.
A police spokesman said that the victim was a divorcee, and a girlfriend of the suspect and not his wife.
This was because police was not able to find official records that the couple was married.
"But we do not know if he secretly married the woman," the spokesman said.
The spokesman added that is was a "clear cut case" and investigations would focus on the personal aspects of the suspect and victim.
Police also revealed that the suspect escaped using a police car.
At 9.35pm, police confirmed that they arrested the suspect in front of the Emart supermarket at Matang.
"His weapons and bullets have been confiscated," a police report said, adding that the suspect did not resist arrest.
Cop shot pregnant girlfriend over personal issues, says S'wak police chief
BY STEPHEN THEN
Sarawak police commissioner Datuk Mazlan Mansor (centre) at a press conference on Monday.
MIRI: Police are still investigating whether the woman allegedly shot dead by a police inspector in Serian, near here, was married to the suspect.
The suspect, an inspector in Belaga who was arrested late Sunday following the 3.30pm incident, is expected to be brought to the court for a remand order later Monday
It is learnt that the woman was two months' pregnant. There was talk that the victim and the suspect were married to each other.
Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Mazlan Mansor said, however, that the marriage was not registered "so officially they were boyfriend and girlfriend before the tragedy".
"An initial probe shows that the motive for the shooting was over personal issues.
"The inspector is divorced. He was not yet officially married to the victim because there is no record of their marriage.
"So far, our probe shows that their relationship was that of boyfriend-girlfriend.
"He may have quietly married her but we are still investigating that," Comm Mazlan said Monday, adding that police are checking if the victim was pregnant.
Comm Mazlan said the pistol used in the shooting was officially assigned by the police force to the suspect.
"He is an inspector in Belaga and he was in Kuching for an official meeting.
"He was supposed to go back to Belaga after the meeting but the incident happened," Comm Mazlan said.
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