Heist to pay off gambling debt turns deadly

By Ratthachai Orachon
The Nation

 

 

Police in Nakhon Ratchasima claim a 20-year-old student told them he robbed a petrol station on Saturday morning because he needed cash to repay a football gambling debt – but he offered no justification for allegedly shooting dead a Cambodian man working there.

 

A source at the Pak Thong Chai Police Station said on Sunday that the murder, caught on CCTV, showed the suspect, identified only by first name Thossawat, arriving on a motorcycle and approaching the 26-year-old victim, who was dozing at the checkout counter.

 

 

The suspect shot him in the head, grabbed a bag containing Bt4,000 in cash and fled.

 

Thossawat was arrested hours later and allegedly told police he didn’t know the victim and only needed the money urgently for his debt. 

 

He said he the gun used, a 9mm pistol, came from the house where he lived with his father, an officer of the law.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30373808

 

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Shoot the bastard

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said he the gun used, a 9mm pistol, came from the house where he lived with his father, an officer of the law.

great  parenting.

Having freedom and choices,   being able to look for some sort of part time work, to pay his debt,

what a numb nut.

Cambodian just trying to make a living,

R.I.P

 

Great to see firearms are stored and secured soundly when not being carried for duty.

Low intelligence level and no morals at all .

Can be found everywhere here , dangerous country .

Terrible waste of life for a damn gambling debt.

Why was the gun not in a locked cabinet or safe?

The offspring of another law officer, committing crimes.

 

RIP service station attendant

 

3 hours ago, gunderhill said:

great  parenting.

If is father is a copper and the only person that died was a lowly Cambodian then he will be ok.

Maybe a few hundred baht fine and a quick wai and back on the streets.

Very sad but that's the way it is here

This is the last anybody will hear of this, and I agree with SW's post above that life won't be disrupted too much for khun Thossawat and his family. 

 

 

Should be "Khun Whatatwat"

2 minutes ago, NE1 said:

Should be "Khun Whatatwat"

Or Khun wat a tosser

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The suspect shot him in the head, grabbed a bag containing Bt4,000 in cash and fled.

Thailand is in a very sad decline.... 

19 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand is in a very sad decline.... 

Not as bad as it used to be, with no internet around back in the day lot of bad stuff going on that no body would hear about, you wouldn't go venture pass 2nd road back in the early 90s

44 minutes ago, rodpav said:

Not as bad as it used to be, with no internet around back in the day lot of bad stuff going on that no body would hear about, you wouldn't go venture pass 2nd road back in the early 90s

Probably the same globally. Cameras everywhere nowadays (phones and CCTV), so most criminal acts get filmed & reported on

2 hours ago, rodpav said:

Not as bad as it used to be, with no internet around back in the day lot of bad stuff going on that no body would hear about, you wouldn't go venture pass 2nd road back in the early 90s

I agree, why do most expats and tourists think crime is increasing and something new? It was hell alot worse before, much more violent Crimes. And it is still like that for tourists and expats that they dont see or hear about the bad stuff, expats and tourists only see less than 10% of shootings and stabbings in Thailand, also so much violent crimes is not reported to police and news much of it is on facebook 

Shoot a sleeping man in the back of the head, who is trying to make an honest living, for 4,000 baht? Honestly, the perpetrator should just be put down. He is obviously beyond help and it would be doing society a great service.