Drinking-related drugs row results in shooting death
A Bangkok worker killed one person and injured a bystander when a group of inebriated young people threw away his crystal methamphetamine paraphernalia at 2am yesterday morning, police said.
The shooter was captured at a Chon Buri checkpoint at 6am.
When police arrived at the scene in front of a convenience store in Soi Pridi Panomyong 46 in Bangkok’s Wattana district, they found the body of Somsong Phaengkhai, 27, with three gunshot wounds in his chest and left leg. Thichakorn Khamwaen, 25, who was eating at a food stall nearby, sustained a gunshot wound in his right arm and was rushed to hospital.
The deceased man’s friend, Nitithep Padpai, said he and his friends were drinking at their usual area when the shooter, later identified as Nakharin Thongmaen, 21, joined them while carrying a plastic bag with drug paraphernalia.
Nitithep said the group threw the bag away, upsetting Nakharin who began fighting with the group. When he was overpowered, he retreated to an apartment building across the road and brandished a gun when the group pursued him, shooting at them four times.
Nakharin then fled the scene in a pickup but was later arrested at a checkpoint in Chon Buri’s Muang district.
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