Payback time! Polite gunman shoots entire family dead - friend hears murders on shocking video call

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported on an extraordinary crime at a house in Pathum Thani yesterday.

 

A Thai man shot a couple and their five year old son dead in revenge for the alleged planting of drugs at his mother's house. 

 

The shooter's mum was jailed for 25 years. This was payback time.

 

Khukhot police captain Kitti Jaihan arrived at house in Moo 11, Soi Hathairat 2, Lam Lukka, Pathum Thani.

 

Dead just outside the property was Kornwika "Nam" Srikhram, 37 and her five year old son in pools of blood.

 

Inside was the husband and father of the other victims, Sorawuth "Bell Thiamrak, 27. He was also dead from a gunshot wound.

 

The shooter was still inside the property. After a considerable standoff with police he surrendered to their custody along with a Glock 19 and ammunition and a Glock 26.

 

He was named as Min Cheuachum, 29, also known as Kae. 

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The mother of Nam, Sureelak Srikhram, 58, said she had been in her house (apparently very close by) with another son when she got a phone call from her daughter who was at the market with her husband and son.

 

Nam said that a man would be visiting and to give him something to eat if he was hungry while he was waiting for their return.

 

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Kae arrived in a taxi and said "sawatdee" to the older lady politely. She gave her blessings and he smiled. He then waited in her daughter's house.

 

The family arrived back from the market and were unloading the car. Bell and his son went to their house where the friend was waiting and two shots were heard. 

 

"They're shooting guns for fun again, said Sureelak. But it was for real. Her daughter went to investigate.

 

Phichai, 51, said that he had been having a video call with Bell, a man he treated as a younger brother. He wanted to borrow some money. He heard several shots and the screams of a young boy before the line went dead.

 

He called back and Kae answered the phone.

 

"Who's that?" asked Phichai to which the person said:

 

"It's Kae khrap"

 

"Which Kae - Kae Chai Klong?"

 

"Yes, that's right khrap".

 

"Was that a gun I just heard?"

 

"Oh, Bell was just shooting for fun," came back the reply.

 

"Oh, can you please put Bell back on the line," requested Phichai.

 

Then came the stunning news.

 

"Actually he's dead. I just shot him", then the line was cut again.

 

Phichai phoned back again and once again Kae answered. 

 

This time he told Phichai that he had shot all three family members dead. Asked why, he wouldn't say.

 

Police understand that Kae's mother had been jailed by a court for 25 years after drugs were found at a house. 

 

Kae believed that a friend of Bell's had planted them there so he had gone to his house to get revenge. 

 

Investigations continue.

 

 

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[kcpattaya]

Poor guy, he just wants to be reunited with his mum. Successfully this time.

[G Rex]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

They're shooting guns for fun again, said Sureelak.

OMG!

Why do these news reports give us so much information?

Do we really need to know the exact address? - or the ages of everyone involved?

 

Shocking stuff - but just another day in Thailand. The value of a life can be very low here.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

7 minutes ago, kcpattaya said:

Poor guy, he just wants to be reunited with his mum. Successfully this time.

He won't see anything of his mum in prison.

[spidermike007]

Was that a gun I just heard?" "Oh, Bell was just shooting for fun," came back the reply. "Oh, can you please put Bell back on the line," requested Phichai.

 

Then came the stunning news. "Actually he's dead. I just shot him", then the line was cut again.

 

Huh? Was it as much fun as you thought it was going to be? Taking lives for planting ganga on the property, presumably? Would you admit that just maybe you over reacted? Do you think this was worth decades in prison? Is that what you wanted Kae? 

 

Is it possible that if he got proper parenting this would not have happened?

[ezzra]

The alarming number of cases we read lately of people going berserk and shooting and knifing everything and everybody without thinking first is getting to a worrying heights and out of control... 

[Mr Meeseeks]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

The alarming number of cases we read lately of people going berserk and shooting and knifing everything and everybody without thinking first is getting to a worrying heights and out of control... 

People are in a fragile mental state after the COVID nonsense and we're just getting started. It was entirely predictable but the government don't seem to have done anything to mitigate or deal with the situation. 

 

Strange that this government isn't being held to account for their actions or lack thereof. 

 

I guess when the media is too scared or under your control, that isn't a problem, unlike with properly elected administrations when being undermined by fraudsters and gangsters.

Edited May 5, 2022 by Mr Meeseeks

[smew]

confusion combined anger is the Thai culture  

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

The alarming number of cases we read lately of people going berserk and shooting and knifing everything and everybody without thinking first is getting to a worrying heights and out of control... 

Thais don't think about the results of their actions.. nor particularly care,

they react to a situation to get revenge.. debt paid in full.

[Skeptic7]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

The alarming number of cases we read lately of people going berserk and shooting and knifing everything and everybody without thinking first is getting to a worrying heights and out of control... 

Yep been saying this every single day. Be prepared to be scolded and schooled that this exact type of "murder anyone and everyone without reason" happens in every country with the same frequency, by the resident Thai apologists.

[Skeptic7]

Another day, another raging, murderous Thai male nut job with a gun, knife, acid, gasoline, whatever...bringing on death, destruction and mayhem. 

[Neeranam]

23 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Another day, another raging, murderous Thai male nut job with a gun, knife, acid, gasoline, whatever...bringing on death, destruction and mayhem. 

I guess you have no Thai male friends that you have this irrational view of life here. 

 

[redwood1]

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Was that a gun I just heard?" "Oh, Bell was just shooting for fun," came back the reply. "Oh, can you please put Bell back on the line," requested Phichai.

 

Then came the stunning news. "Actually he's dead. I just shot him", then the line was cut again.

 

Huh? Was it as much fun as you thought it was going to be? Taking lives for planting ganga on the property, presumably? Would you admit that just maybe you over reacted? Do you think this was worth decades in prison? Is that what you wanted Kae? 

 

Is it possible that if he got proper parenting this would not have happened?

Well if your innocent mother was sent to prison for 25 years and you knew who did this to her, no telling what you or anyone else might do...

 

Yes these killings did not help anyone but I can have some understanding of the situation , if the mother was jailed on a set up..... 

[The Hammer2021]

The war on drugs is a war on the people that corrupts society at every level and promotes unethical, immoral and criminal  behaviour  more damaging than drug  use.

[Asquith Production]

To kill a 5 year old child, who would be totally innocent with  there whole life ahead of them is just so unforgivable.  RIP 

[GroveHillWanderer]

12 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

Well if your innocent mother was sent to prison for 25 years and you knew who did this to her, no telling what you or anyone else might do...

 

Yes these killings did not help anyone but I can have some understanding of the situation , if the mother was jailed on a set up..... 

There's no evidence in the article that supports the idea that the gunman's mother was set up, though.

 

But even if it was the case, it still wasn't any of the people who were killed that were supposed to have set her up, it was supposed to have been a friend of the father.

 

Why shoot people who weren't even the ones who'd supposedly done what you were upset about?

 

It's all totally senseless (and quite, quite tragic).

Edited May 5, 2022 by GroveHillWanderer

[swm59nj]

I like the way some people say there are more crimes in the USA and other western countries. 
Try watching the Thai news every night.  See how many crimes involving murder, robbery, rage, assault happen in Thailand everyday. Act like very little violence and crime happens here. 
In reality there is a problem with crime here.  So just because you dislike  your home country or couldn’t afford to live there .  Don’t be turning a blind eye here.  

Edited May 5, 2022 by swm59nj

[metisdead]

An off topic deflection post about the USA has been removed.  

[Boomer6969]

Animals.

[chalawaan]

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

The alarming number of cases we read lately of people going berserk and shooting and knifing everything and everybody without thinking first is getting to a worrying heights and out of control... 

It's always been this way, you just hear about all the horror in the world everyday now because internets.

When I first came to LoS all Thai news was in Thai. But the front pages were in colour by then, and every day there were corpses galore as the leader story. 

If anything, they've cleaned that up somewhat, the gory photos anyway.

 

[Kerryd]

I know of a couple people who were "grassed" for drugs. Old g/f of mine got a 3 year sentence after cops found drugs in a room she shared with another girl. Supposedly the drugs belonged to the other girl but the cops busted both of them.

The landlady of a building I used to live in was asked by a former tenant if she could deliver a box the tenant had left behind. The landlady was stopped by the cops who apparently were waiting for her (having been tipped off by "someone" it seems). I was told that for a couple hundred thousand baht the whole matter could "disappear". (I wasn't about to donate any money for that.)

A few months ago, a guy I know through a friend got busted. He runs a hair shop and, because business is bad, makes house calls. I'm told a friend of his asked him to come over and give him a haircut.
Shortly after he arrived, the place was raided by the cops who accused the hairdresser of being a drug dealer. (He claims he never sold drugs and what they found in his friend's room wasn't his.)
Not sure how that went down. Can't tell if the cops were watching him or his friend or if it was just a set up (which wouldn't make sense as the guy doesn't have the cash to pay a bribe and isn't the kind to do anything that would p*ss anyone off to the point they'd go through the effort of setting him up).

He's still in the remand center waiting trial it seems.

Doesn't take much though, to p*ss someone off enough that they'd go to extreme lengths to get back at someone, like planting drugs in someone's house and then tipping off the cops.

[RichardColeman]

Killing a kid deserves no mercy - bullet to the head, end of. More and more like the wild west every day here

[Kerryd]

2 minutes ago, chalawaan said:

It's always been this way, you just hear about all the horror in the world everyday now because internets.

When I first came to LoS all Thai news was in Thai. But the front pages were in colour by then, and every day there were corpses galore as the leader story. 

If anything, they've cleaned that up somewhat, the gory photos anyway.

 

Yeah, they used to show corpses splattered on the road or hanging from trees, but blurred out boobs and cigarettes.

And it was common to publish the facepage of a foreigner's passport as well as their full address (and I mean full address). Used to laugh when someone from a "M.uslim" country would get into a drunken altercation with some ladyboys (or get roofied and robbed by the same) and they'd publish his full name, nationality, country as well as his passport face page.

[ozimoron]

1 hour ago, Skeptic7 said:

Another day, another raging, murderous Thai male nut job with a gun, knife, acid, gasoline, whatever...bringing on death, destruction and mayhem. 

I guess nut jobs don't shoot up schools or churches or whatever in your country.

[metisdead]

Off topic posts "about what is news" and the replies have been removed. 

 

An off topic post about the murder rates in the USA has been removed.

[brianthainess]

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Huh? Was it as much fun as you thought it was going to be? Taking lives for planting ganga on the property, presumably?

25 years for ganga what ever that is, is it like GANJA ? is very unlikely and no where even in the full story does it mention ganja I would suspect a class A drug not class C.

[thairookie]

Was the mother who had drugs planted in her house supposed to be paid and not to have been paid ?

[Morty T]

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Do you think this was worth decades in prison? Is that what you wanted Kae? 

 

That has yet to be seen. This is the LOS. We don't know who Kae is, the son of a wealthy businessman, prominent politician or has a sizable bank roll. All meaning a 1000 baht fine, Wai and apology. 

[Nkpjed]

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Well if your innocent mother was sent to prison for 25 years and you knew who did this to her, no telling what you or anyone else might do...

 

Yes these killings did not help anyone but I can have some understanding of the situation , if the mother was jailed on a set up..... 

So, you have some understanding of killing an innocent 5 year old? And his parents who according to the article had nothing to do with whatever happened to the gunman’s mother?

[Aussieroaming]

Scumbag kid killer needs to be locked up for life.  RIP little fella