Police have detained three students from Samut Prakan

By The Nation

 

 

Police have detained three students from Samut Prakan Technological College for questioning over the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old student from Bangkok College of Industrial Technology in Bangkok’s Bang Na district on Monday.

 

According to a source at Bang Na police station, the three students have admitted to officers that two members of their 20-strong group were carrying guns and shot at the victim, Chanathip Piamyoom, after coming across him and his five friends near Wat Sri Eium resulting in their group chasing the other group of six. 

 

The information has now helped police to apply for further arrest warrants, the source said, adding that the attack was believed to have stemmed from a misunderstanding as the 20-strong group on 12 motorcycles thought that the victim’s group, on two motorcycles, were from another rival colleges, as they were wearing similar clothes. 

 

Police were also considering summoning teachers from the two colleges to provide more information on Wednesday, the source added.

 

Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin meanwhile called on all those officers involved in the case to a meeting on Tuesday to check on the progress they were making. 

 

Bang Na superintendent Pol Colonel Nakhon Thongpanich said the shooting was due to a brawl between rival technology students. 

 

To better prevent this in future, local officers would ask for the colleges’ co-operation and increase the frequency of their patrols in high-risk areas - especially the front of Central Bang Na, the Bang Na Intersection, Soi La Salle (Baring) and the Udomsuk area nearby.

 

In a related development, the grief-stricken mother of the deceased student, Sukanya Naknoi, 51, collected her son’s body from Chulalongkorn Hospital and said that she was shocked at what happened since he had only recently started at the college.

 

She said he had chosen Bangkok College of Industrial Technology as it was less likely to be involved in disputes with other colleges, adding that he was a well-behaved teenager who would avoid disputes at all costs.

 

She said she wanted police to proceed with legal action against whoever was responsible, no matter how young.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373498

 

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Clothes similar to a rival group.

It will take many more generations to remove the Neanderthal gene that clearly still exists and has been inherited by these youths.

well the parents taught them well, they trotted out the old MISUINDERSTANDING excuse already, *very sorry about that, we meant to kill that other lot, its your fault for wearing the wrong clothes. * note !! never (MY) fault.. same with every thing here from , tourism, waste water in the sea, drought,  the list is endless

Jail them at least 40 years each and no parole, Rest in peace young lad.

Haven't we read this a hundred times before, with the same 'solution' - we'll talk with the schools. And this murder took place close to where other murders took place in a motorcycle taxi war. I used to live in Udom Suk and shop at Bang Na. I'm very glad I moved out to 'boring' Issan. Not many shootings around here.

I started off thinking this was a rather serious situation but now having found out it was only 'a misunderstanding' makes me feel much happier about the whole thing.

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the 20-strong group on 12 motorcycles thought that the victim’s group, on two motorcycles, were from another rival colleges, as they were wearing similar clothes. 

Your can't fix stupid! 

48 minutes ago, fullcave said:

Your can't fix stupid! 

Well you can but it's terminal.

talk about school rivalry at least in the states we didn't kill each other????