Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Yohanes Wicaksono said Dani Kogoya was shot in his right leg as he tried to escape arrest by 20 police officers Sunday night at a hotel in the provincial capital, Jayapura.
Wicaksono said Monday that Kogoya is suspected of masterminding the shootings of a German tourist and a soldier this year and the killing of another soldier and two civilians in last year.
Police confiscated a homemade gun, ammunition, arrows and documents from his house.