Policeman kills wife, turns gun on himself in front of daughter

By The Nation

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A policeman shot his wife to death and then turned the gun on himself inside their car in front of their daughter in Narathiwat on Monday evening, police said.

 

The Sungai Kolok police station was alerted at 5.50pm to the bodies inside a car that had skidded to the side of Prachawiwat road in downtown Sungai Kolok district.

 

Arriving officers found a 7-year-old girl, Netikan Musukim, crying in the backseat.

 

The body of Natthanan Trakulprom, 30, was found in the driver's seat. She was shot three times to her head and body.

 

The body of Pol Corporal Boonyawat Trakulprom, 28, was found in the front passenger seat with a bullet wound to his right temple. A 9mm gun was found on the floor between his legs.

 

The girl, Natthanan's daughter from a previous marriage, told police that her stepfather had driven to pick up her mother from the school where she taught music and then picked up the daughter from another school.

 

The stepfather then had his wife take over driving for the trip home, but a quarrel erupted and the policeman shot her, causing the car to skid off the road. The father then shot himself, the girl told police.

 

Pol Colonel Prayut Pongsanti, commander of the Sungai Kolok police station, said the murder-suicide was motivated by a family quarrel.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30354185

 

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Poor kid to loose her mother and have to live with the memory of what she witnessed for the rest of her life.  Whilst I doubt she will get it, she would need care and counselling for a long time to come.

The memory of this will haunt this poor little girl for the rest of her life, and scar her emotionally in ways we can't begin to imagine.

 

52 minutes ago, webfact said:

The stepfather then had his wife take over driving for the trip home, but a quarrel erupted and the policeman shot her, causing the car to skid off the road. The father then shot himself, the girl told police.

 

Pol Colonel Prayut Pongsanti, commander of the Sungai Kolok police station, said the murder-suicide was motivated by a family quarrel.

I wonder how he reached that conclusion.

 

Poor little girl.

This is the problem with guns,one squeeze of the trigger,it's impersonal,and you can't take the bullet back,terrible for the young girl.

Be strong little one.. more to the story of course...

She lost her mother but is lucky that idiot step-father didn't also kill her.

Thailand is on the slippery slope to being completely socially dysfunctional...

One day we will be reading about a nice policeman? maybe? one without murderous corrupted tendencies for a change?RIP

On 9/12/2018 at 8:42 AM, sammieuk1 said:

One day we will be reading about a nice policeman? maybe? one without murderous corrupted tendencies for a changeRIP

Well, there was a topic about "The dancing Traffic Cop" but he got heavily bashed by TVF members. So, no matter what they (the police) do, they'll get a bashing from from members.

I believe the principle "all who take the sword [i.e., weapon] will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52, ESV; [ ] for emphasis) applies.