Gunman kills neighbour and injures young girl before arrest in deadly rampage in Thai village

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by Petch Petpailin

Police arrested a Thai gunman after he murdered one of his neighbours and wounded a 12 year old girl in a village in the northern province of Lampang. The murderer was suffering from paranoia and thought the victim planned to kill him. He is now undergoing a drug test.

 

Officers from Jae Hom Police Station discovered the dead body of a 49 year old man named Patipon Chaiyachart, with several gunshot wounds to his body on Baan Jae Khon-Baan Tung Hang Road in the Jae Hom district of Lampang at about 7.30pm yesterday.

In a village near the road, a 12 year old girl suffered a gunshot wound to her left arm. A bullet reportedly hit her while she was standing in her house. Her family sent her to a hospital and the girl is now in stable condition. Details of how the bullet hit the girl were not disclosed in the report.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/gunman-kills-neighbour-and-injures-young-girl-before-arrest-in-deadly-rampage-in-thai-village

 

 

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[hotchilli]

I sometimes wonder just how many nut-jobs are out there in the public arena just waiting to go-off like a bomb.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

I sometimes wonder just how many nut-jobs are out there in the public arena just waiting to go-off like a bomb.

Subtract 25% from the population over 18 and I think you will be near

[prakhonchai nick]

"The murderer was suffering from paranoia and thought the victim planned to kill him. He is now undergoing a drug test."    Whatever, murder is murder, the murderer had a gun (for what if not to use it) and must suffer the consequences of his action - ideally the death penalty!

[Purdey]

More loonies with guns. Really, it takes real political will to control boys with toys.

[khunJam]

On 5/2/2023 at 3:34 AM, Purdey said:

More loonies with guns. Really, it takes real political will to control boys with toys.

But not loonies with rocks knives machetes sticks cars choking hands and fire? Right? Political will? It's the religion of political ideology that makes people blind and narrow minded and fixated on a single object, though they'll never know it.  

 

The guy was stoned out of his mind, he was going to achieve his delusional objective one way or another. 

[Purdey]

4 hours ago, khunJam said:

The guy was stoned out of his mind, he was going to achieve his delusional objective one way or another. 

Seems you know exactly how loonies think. Now I am more worried.

[billd766]

On 5/2/2023 at 4:32 PM, prakhonchai nick said:

"The murderer was suffering from paranoia and thought the victim planned to kill him. He is now undergoing a drug test."    Whatever, murder is murder, the murderer had a gun (for what if not to use it) and must suffer the consequences of his action - ideally the death penalty!

He should have been taken around the corner and eliminated.