The special panel formed to probe the fatal shooting of teenager Aminulrasyid Amzah, have gotten their hands dirty and went to the ground yesterday night to do some sleuthing work of their own.

Headed by Deputy Home Minister Abu Seman Yusop, the eight-men panel started their field work by visiting some key areas in Shah Alam and following the trail that Aminulrasyid and his friend took before the bloodshed early last Monday morning.

The panel members started their 6km journey from a mamak restaurant in Section 7 where the 14-year-old and his friend were watching football late at night to the Kayangan roundabout, where they had allegedly grazed a car.

The panel also stopped by the areas where the police started chasing the Proton Iswara driven by the teen, as well as the exact location where the first shot was fired just about 500m from where the victim lived, before stopping at the final destination when the car hit a tree and crashed into a drain in Jalan 11/2, Section 11.

The panel, which included former inspector-general of police Mohammed Haniff Omar, also spoke to the witnesses in the neighbourhood, who also gave their versions of what transpired.

Businessman Wan Rahim Tajuddin, whose house was the exact spot Aminulrasyid had finally crashed into, told the panel members that he heard a loud crash outside his house but assumed nothing much out of it.

"It was only the next day when the neighbours were talking about it and they told me of the drama. They said that it was like a TV3 drama," he said.

He also recounted that Aminulrasyid was a good friend of his son and that he used to send the two boys together to their part-time jobs in McDonald's.

"They also used to play futsal until late to the point where I had to drag the both of them home," he said, adding that the clique were football maniacs.

The special panel, formed just last week, was not exactly subtle in their turun padang effort. They were escorted by a police outrider, along with a convoy of