Subsequently, Khor was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for the lorry driver's murder, but he was convicted of firing his gun with intent to cause hurt, and sentenced to death on 25 February 2005.

[6] On the afternoon of 30 July 1984, 31-year-old Khor Kok Soon and his 43-year-old accomplice Lim Woo Sung (林武生 Lín Wǔshēng), alias "Toh Huay Seow", planned to commit armed robbery at Shenton Way.

Riding a stolen motorcycle, both Khor and Lim headed to Shenton Way, and upon reaching the place, they roamed the area and monitored at least six banks, looking for a target to rob.

[7] By the time the pair went to the sixth bank, a team of police officers were already arriving due to a tip-off about the presence of armed robbers at Shenton Way.

As for Khor, he was followed by two police detectives, Corporal Quek Chek Kwang (郭志光 Guō Zhìguāng) and Sergeant Lim Kiah Chin (林家振 Lín Jiāzhèn).

On that fateful day, Ong was driving that lorry along Shenton Way after having lunch with his brother, with the intention of heading to the police station to pay a traffic fine on his brother's behalf, when Khor entered his lorry and forced him to drive him before he was killed, allegedly by Khor or any of the pursuing police officers.

Based on the degree of damage caused and little amount of blood around Ong's driver seat, the shot that killed Ong was fired point blank from a close-range distance of 10 to 12 cm,[19] and the killing may have taken place at the back alley of Teo Hong Road or somewhere in the nearby streets.

Before Khor left Singapore, he sent handwritten letters to the press, telling the reporters that he was indeed involved in the shooting, but he protested his innocence and said he was not the one who killed Ong King Hock, the lorry driver he held hostage.

[47] On 23 December 2003, after 19 years on the run, 50-year-old Khor Kok Soon was finally arrested in the Malaysian state of Johor by the Royal Malaysia Police.

On 14 February 2005, after twenty years and seven months of evading justice, 51-year-old Khor Kok Soon was finally brought to trial for three charges of unlawfully discharging a firearm with intent to cause hurt.

The two retired policemen, SI Cyril Sta Maria and the victim, Sergeant Lim Kiah Chin, came to court to testify for the prosecution.

The investigating officer Raj Kumar and forensic pathologist Chao Tzee Cheng also died prior to Khor's arrest and trial.

Sergeant Lim, who was able to evade both the second and third shot, said he returned fire again twice but they missed, and Khor climbed to the front of the lorry from the right side, forcing Ong at gunpoint to drive him away.

[55] SI Sta Maria, the second prosecution witness, stated he was off-duty and driving along Shenton Way to the hospital when he encountered Khor fleeing the pursuit of Corporal Quek and Sergeant Lim.

He said that he got shot on the shoulder during the escape, and at the same time, he witnessed the lorry driver's limp body collapsing on the steering wheel, and he, therefore, took over the wheel to drive all the way to the small alley, where he abandoned the lorry and Ong's corpse He then went into hiding, marking the start of his 19-year life as a fugitive wanted for murder.

[58] On 25 February 2005, two days after Khor celebrated his 52nd birthday, the trial verdict was scheduled to be given in court by Justice Kan Ting Chiu.

In his judgement, Justice Kan commented that the trial itself was unusual in nature, given that the case took place more than twenty years before the trial and that out of the witnesses, the investigation officer Inspector Raj Kumar died years ago, Corporal Quek could not give his testimony due to poor health, and even the two retired policemen, Sergeant Lim and SI Sta Maria, as well as the defendant Khor Kok Soon himself, were unable to accurately recall the sequence of events as a result of the quick turn of events that day and the two decades that had passed since the incident.

[61][62] The families of both Khor Kok Soon and the murdered lorry driver Ong King Hock were present in court to hear the verdict.

She stated that after her father went into hiding in 1984, their relatives distanced themselves from her family, leaving her mother to painstakingly raise both her and her younger sister alone, and had to fork out savings with their aunt's help to open a shop to make a living.

Khor's elder daughter stated that she and her sister had to go through lonely childhoods due to their fear that their friends and classmates would found out the identity of their father, who was an infamous fugitive accused of murder.

[70][71][72][73] It was confirmed through a 2007 crime documentary that Khor Kok Soon was hanged at Changi Prison sometime after losing his appeal, although the exact date of his execution in 2006 was not specified.

Khor's former lawyer Edmond Pereira agreed to be interviewed on the show, and he told the producers of the show that Khor deeply regretted his involvement in the shoot-out, and he was also remorseful about the death of Ong King Hock, whom he denied killing but nonetheless felt sad for his death, since he only held Ong hostage for the sake of escaping the police before the lorry driver ended up dead as a result of his actions.