Wild attack on under cover cop amid claims he shot their friend dead

[webfact]

Wild attack on under cover cop amid claims he shot their friend dead

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A group of fifty friends of a dead student attacked a cop after he allegedly shot their friend dead. 

 

Minburi police went to the scene of the shooting of a fourth year engineering student from a Bangkapi tech school. Twenty two year old Ekkachai Bunrat had been hit four times by a 9mm gun and was lying dead in a pool of blood between Sois 6 and 8 in Rom Klao district. 

 

He had a .38 gun in his jeans with six bullets still in it, an empty holster by his belt buckle and there was an empty .38 and two motorcycles lying nearby.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

An unnamed injured man was taken to Nopparat Hospital. 

 

Following the shooting a group of fifty of the dead student's friends started haranguing the police claiming that one of their undercover officers had shot their friend dead.

 

The object of their claims is the man in the red t-shirt in the news pictures. 

 

The mob surrounded and banged on a police vehicle as the red t-shirt man took refuge from the rain. 

 

He emerged from the vehicle and a melee ensued. According to press reports he produced his gun and said: "I'll shoot anyone who comes near". 

 

He then fired two shots in the air. 

 

When the crowd failed to disperse he shot four times into the mob with Thai Rath saying that he had endangered members of the public who were passing and reporters who were on the scene. 

 

He was then whisked away in a police car. 

 

A police spokesman said that shots were fired when an undercover team confronted two men in a drugs related incident. One man is in hospital.

 

An investigation has been ordered to find out what actually happened. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-02-11

[from the home of CC]

 collateral damage in the war on drugs..

[Denim]

Rain !? Really ? Lucky people. Could sure do with some in Petchabun.

[darksidedog]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

According to press reports he produced his gun and said: "I'll shoot anyone who comes near". 

 

He then fired two shots in the air. 

 

When the crowd failed to disperse he shot four times into the mob

Irrespective of how the first person was shot, firing indiscriminately into a mob of people is quite simply a criminal act. Being a policeman, I very much doubt if he will be in any serious trouble though, as I am yet to see any of them who have murdered members of the public genuinely punished.

[flyingtlger]

I smell a cover up.....

 

[RichardColeman]

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

He had a .38 gun in his jeans with six bullets still in it, an empty holster by his belt buckle and there was an empty .38 and two motorcycles lying nearby.

Sorry, but to me does not seem like a great loss to humanity, a student running around with a gun

[mok199]

The Wild Wild East....

[hotchilli]

48 minutes ago, Denim said:

Rain !? Really ? Lucky people. Could sure do with some in Petchabun.

Rain or smog clearing with a hose pipe.

Thailand is slipping very fast into a lawless society... death every day one way or another.

Poverty is biting in as the wealth gap widens, people out of work doing/selling drugs to make money.

University kids graduating with a worthless certificate of education turning to crime immediately because commerce has no place for them.

Tourism on the slip meaning many resort workers will soon be out of work.

Thailand is heading for a slump.

[UASCB500BIKER]

The cop feared for his life. 50 to 1, ok to shoot.. cop goes home alive.. and I no friend of cops...

[Nyezhov]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand is heading for a slump.

Cool. The Baht will weaken against the dollar.

[oldrunner]

Are you waiting for the extensive report on why the "Policeman" fired four shots into a group of people?

Don't hold your breath.

[CanuckThai]

Who needs fake news...LOS is a daily dose of high stake "believe it or not" excitement (and/or excrement).

[smedly]

4 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Irrespective of how the first person was shot, firing indiscriminately into a mob of people is quite simply a criminal act.

it depends, if he believes his (or someone elses) life is in danger then his actions could be justified, reading the OP it seems the police were not the only ones carrying firearms.

 

TBH it's not easy to work out what exactly was going on from the news report - no surprise there

[Aussieroaming]

Cops and kids playing cowboys and indians

[chama]

Cop was upset that his personal buy was light and he was going to have to dip into the evidence to take home his share....so....bang, bang. 

[Jaggg88]

9 hours ago, UASCB500BIKER said:

The cop feared for his life. 50 to 1, ok to shoot.. cop goes home alive.. and I no friend of cops...

He tried firing shots in the air first but didn't work so he had no choice if his life was in danger. I wonder if the people who disagree would stand there and be beaten to death instead.

[webfact]

Policeman faces angry mob after killing student

By THE NATION

 

 

A PLAINCLOTHED policeman, returning from an operation to arrest five drugs suspects in Bangkok’s Min Buri district, shot dead a 22-year-old technical college student early on Monday.

 

 

Following the fatal shooting at 1.30am, Min Buri superintendent Pol Colonel Pornthep Sutipanya led officers to inspect the scene at the entrance to Soi Rom Klao 6-8. There, they found the body of Ekkachai Boonrat with four gunshots in his torso, a holster tucked under his belt and a .38 pistol which had been fired and emptied. Six bullets were found in one of his trouser pockets. His motorcycle was lying on the road, as was another motorbike nearby.

 

Metropolitan Police Area 2 deputy commander Pol Colonel Chanwit Phumpho said officers from a drugs suppression team in Metropolitan Police Area 4 were returning to their station in a pickup truck and a motorcycle when Ekkachai shot at them, resulting in one officer sustaining a leg injury.

 

 

As police investigators gathered evidence the officer accused of killing the student was surrounded by about 50 angry schoolmates of the dead man as he stood by the police truck, where they threatened to attack him. 

 

The accused officer shot twice into the sky and threatened to fire at anyone who got near him, then fired four times in the direction of the students, in full view of reporters, bystanders and motorists. Fortunately nobody was hurt in the tense stand-off and a fellow officer hurriedly escorted him to the local police station. 

 

The dead man’s friends later gave a different account of what had happened, saying they were returning from a college event when a motorcyclist approached Ekkachai as he rode his motorcycle and argued with him. 

 

A pickup truck then cut in front of Ekkachai's bike causing him to crash and a person in the truck then shot Ekkachai dead, allegedly over suspicion he was involved in drugs. Chanwit said police would summon eyewitnesses and all the police officers involved in the incident to give evidence.

 

Ekkachai’s parents, Airforce Senior Master Sergeant Napassakorn Boonrat and wife Jiamjai, later went to Min Buri police station to collect a document they needed in order to retrieve their son’s body from the morgue. 

 

Napassakorn told reporters that his son had not been involved in drug trafficking. He also said the pistol wasn’t his but could not be sure if it belonged to his son or someone else. He said he had been told his son had been shot in the back and would therefore demand to see both the post-mortem report and all relevant CCTV footage. 

 

“Our family wants justice and truth. If the investigation finds that my son did wrong, I will accept it but if the police did wrong, they must own up to it,” Napassakorn said. 

 

 

Police also collected evidence from the police’s pickup, which sustained a shattered side glass window and had a bullet reportedly lodged inside it.

 

City police chief Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin later assigned his deputy in charge for legal affairs and litigation, Pol Maj General Theerasak Suriwong, and his deputy, Pol Maj General Nitinan Phetchborom, to conduct a preliminary fact-finding probe. Whether a fact-finding committee to officially probe this case would be set up would be decided later, he said. 

 

Metropolitan Police Area 4 commander Pol Maj General Theerapong Wongrakpitak, meanwhile, said Ekkachai had not been involved in the drugs bust conducted before the fatal shooting. 

 

Theerapong said Ekkachai’s college celebrated its founding day on Sunday, after which the police team returning from the drugs bust encountered a large group of student motorcyclists on Rom Klao and Ramkhamhaeng roads. The officers claimed Ekkachai tried to overtake the pickup truck on his motorbike and opened fire at the accused policeman sitting in the cargo bed, resulting in the gunfight.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30363945

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-02-12

[LazySlipper]

17 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

collateral damage in the war on drugs..

 

Does shooting into a crowd count as collateral damage or cowardice?

I don't get your meaning... irony or something else?

[YetAnother]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Whether a fact-finding committee to officially probe this case would be set up would be decided later, he said. 

is a pre-ordained conclusion given a policeman is involved; a report citing 'insufficient evidence' and deposited in some forgotten drawer

[IAMHERE]

18 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Sorry, but to me does not seem like a great loss to humanity, a student running around with a gun

Who said he was running around with a gun? Could have 'received' them after he was dead. There must be a lot of used .38's around the country.

[scotinsiam]

Amazing Thailand

[hotchilli]

12 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Who said he was running around with a gun? Could have 'received' them after he was dead. There must be a lot of used .38's around the country.

A bit of a clue in the report!

"a holster tucked under his belt and a .38 pistol which had been fired and emptied. Six bullets were found in one of his trouser pockets"

[overherebc]

19 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Sorry, but to me does not seem like a great loss to humanity, a student running around with a gun

Specialist subject.

Ballistics.

[chama]

On 2/11/2019 at 7:09 PM, YetAnother said:

is a pre-ordained conclusion given a policeman is involved; a report citing 'insufficient evidence' and deposited in some forgotten drawer

The RTP are definitely guilty of fabricating facts to support a story that shows them in the best light but if the dead student had a holster on his belt and a gun that was in it not to far away he probably payed the price for playing wit the big boys. If he really had a gun....a big if.

[BigC]

On 2/11/2019 at 1:47 PM, darksidedog said:

Irrespective of how the first person was shot, firing indiscriminately into a mob of people is quite simply a criminal act. Being a policeman, I very much doubt if he will be in any serious trouble though, as I am yet to see any of them who have murdered members of the public genuinely punished.

If he shot into a crowd  he will  get  trouble