Gardener Guns Down Colleague at Thammasat University

[mercman24]

i called a girl "stupid" a couple of years ago, bad move, she as going to shoot me, "i not care about police etc" put the wind up me i can tell ya !!

[ratcatcher]

 

hmm in custody on suspicion. if that were a burmian gardner would the report be different

No.......but if he was Burmese it might.

Constant references to Burmese (burmianmarese???) these days are so passe & corny. Let's try Thai from now on??

[dunroaming]

Gun culture. At least it was only one person getting shot whereas in other places with a strong gun culture the campus can become a bloodbath.

[webfact]

Thammasat Gardener Turned Gunman Says Poverty Insult Led to Killing
By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer


Blood marks the scene of a fatal shooting Friday morning in the main administrative building of Thammasat University's Rangsit campus

BANGKOK — A university gardener who shot his fellow employee to death Friday, did it out of anger resulting from being looked down on, said a police investigator. He added that the man could face the face death penalty.

Somnuek Kaewtham, 55, head gardener at Thammasat University’s Rangsit Campus in Pathum Thani province, told Col. Prasert Waenkaew that he became enraged at 58-year-old Amnart Niyomsakdi when he was buying tangerines Friday morning.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1454845792&typecate=06&section=


-- Khaosod English 2016-02-08

[seedy]

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[Living in a cartoon]

In my opinion, he overreacted to the insult.

[lemonjelly]

"Asked why a gardener would carry a revolver on his duty, Chanan said the university has a no-firearms policy, and he was not aware why Somnuek was packing heat."

The assistant rector really said that?

Typo; should read "packing peat".

[Katipo]

In my opinion, he overreacted to the insult.

I am not so sure. I think he has strong case for justifiable homicide.

[IAMHERE]

In my opinion, he overreacted to the insult.

Not sure it was the insult that drove him to shoot. The thought that the insulting guy was going to tell the administrator about the gun was the cause. Tell the administrator and then the gardener would have lost his jog, not been able to buy any fruit then; often loss of your rice bowl is reason enough to kill over.

[fosseway]

Posters, respect please. Remember that someone died here.

[BestBitterPhuket]

Posters, respect please. Remember that someone died here.

Oh, it was only a poor Thai peasant who was murdered. Had it been a Brit or an American there would have been RIPs in every post.

[SOTIRIOS]

......sometimes people can only be pushed so far....

...it seems like this was a chronically bad relationship......

[trainman34014]

How many Gardeners do you know that carry a 357 Magnum when they go to work ? This country is becoming one giant lunatic asylum !

[bendejo]

If he brought the gun to work with the intention of killing the guy that's pre-meditated capital murder, top of the heap.

If he just happened to be carry the gun and he got in an argument and blew his stack and killed him there is all sort of defense a lawyer could play. But that's farang-land type law, and anyway both parties are Thai. Probably a fine and a piece of money to the deceased's family.