Phuket policeman’s son shot dead allegedly over B500 debt

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Phuket policeman’s son shot dead allegedly over B500 debt

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A friend of the victim, Yutranan Jitchareon, 21 (left), speaks to police at the scene of the shooting. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- A policeman’s son was shot dead in Khao Kaew yesterday night (Nov 14) in what has been said was a dispute over a B500 debt.

 

Maj Col Natthaya Suwanpong of the Phuket City Police was informed by staff from Mission Hospital at 7:30pm yesterday that a man, named as 21-year-old Thanapon Chusawad, had died while being transported to the hospital following a shooting incident close to British International School, Phuket (BISP).

 

A friend of the victim, Yutranan Jitchareon, 21, told police that he and Mr Thanapon had gone to an areas close to BISP to discuss with a debt collector a B500 debt they owed.

 

The debt collector arrived at the meeting point in a white Toyota.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-policeman-son-shot-dead-allegedly-over-b500-debt-59846.php

 

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[bokningar]

Getting killed over 500 THB , just crazy. 

[Reigntax]

500Baht. The value of life, the same value as loss of face.

[Bonobojt]

we humans are a messed up species 

[Enoon]

Perhaps it was simply a matter of "face"?

 

The deceased failed to "respect" the collector sufficiently.

 

You know what they're like.

 

 

 

 

[Briggsy]

I don't believe for a moment that is the full story. (Source = friend and accomplice of the deceased)

 

However I am sure  that the killer has a good chance of not being taken alive. A death squad will be out for him as we post.

[Honthy]

I am not sure that the main issue was 500 THB, but something else too. Even in Thailand 500 Baht is not enough reason to kill someone. Otherwise, at least one of them should have a gun, what is more than a normal street gadget.

[Briggsy]

Khun Yutranan does not look 21 and has a rather strange visage about him.

[UnkleMoooose]

Schadenfreude. I'm overcome with it.

[Honthy]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Yutranan Jitchareon, 21

Either this picture is extremely bad, or Khun Yutrananis not too photogene but as if he would much older than 21.

[Jonmarleesco]

3 hours ago, Reigntax said:

500Baht. The value of life, the same value as loss of face.

It's not the value of the victim's life; it's the value too many Thais place on themselves.

[Finkelstein]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

Khun Yutranan does not look 21 and has a rather strange visage about him.

From the looks of his fingers, I guess this is not the first time he wasn't able to meet the term of his loan.

[Ratcher]

Must be more to this story. 

[worgeordie]

Thats not good business ,shooting the person that owes you money,especially

500 THB,also what's the point of going to meet the person you owe money to,

if you don't have the money,normally debtors keep out of the way of people they

owe money to,think there is a lot more to this story,who ever killed a Policemans

son is never going to make it to a cell,that's for sure.

regards worgeordie

[Oziex1]

Hard to believe story, shot for Bt500,

 

A drug deal gone wrong maybe?

[whatproblem]

Pay your debts 

[The man from udon]

I owe this Thai guy up the end of my soi 50baht and there's a 50/50 split who ever pops me off first.500 baht he must of been mr big.no sympathy,he would only of turned out a waster with a papa copper covering his dirty deeds.life is so cheap out here.

[Beats56]

Man shoot somebody over 500 bt ..asinine. cripes would have giving him the 500 if saves someones life.

RIP young man

 

[metisdead]

A post in which the quoted post had been altered has been removed. 

[ripstanley]

A policeman’s son was shot dead in Khao Kaew yesterday night (Nov 14) in what has been said was a dispute over a B500 debt.

 

This was posted 7 hours ago but it happened yesterday night Nov 14.

What else did this reporter get wrong?

[Happy Grumpy]

5 hours ago, bokningar said:

Getting killed over 500 THB , just crazy. 

 

That's 10 times the amount of what the farang got a Samurai Sword in the head from the Taxi driver for on Sukhumvit.... 50 baht.

 

This guy's friend looks like a complete yabba head. 

[Happy Grumpy]

1 hour ago, whatproblem said:

Pay your debts 

 

Don't get in debt in the first place. 

[Happy Grumpy]

If a gas station attendant gets kicked in the head for asking a customer to turn off their engine as they fill it, and asking a pick up driver to go to the correct toll-booth to pay gets them knocked out, it's not hard to see that not paying 500 baht can result in violent death when there's a Thai involved. 

Edited November 14, 2016 by Happy Grumpy

[Khon Kaen Dave]

cops son shot for a 500 baht debt.But the collector arrived in a white Toyota.What the f### has that got to do with it? Would he have still got  arrested if he turned up in a white Mazzarati????

[Xircal]

I think the friend needs to be interrogated over this incident. After all, he's the one who has come up with this figure of 500 baht.

 

If the real figure is more like 50k then that raises questions about what that kind of money was being used for and might lead to the friend being arrested. So it's in his interest to tone it down as much as possible so that he can walk away.

 

In any event I just can't see a debt collector shooting somebody over a mere 500 baht somehow.

[Stargeezr]

This 21 year old may have been a police man's son, but do not forget that police in Thailand are not

paid that much in salary, unless they are in a high position.  Chances are that more than 500 baht was

owed.   I knew a Thai woman who became addicted to gambling. She went on the lam from Phuket after

taking her husband of all his and his mother's savings, as well as a bunch of her friends, and a few

thousand baht from a mafia loan lender.  I never heard from her again, and her husband and kids still

live in Phuket, and over the years he has let me know that she lived in the north of Thailand under a

different name, but is still being hunted by the mafia.  Us Farangs only get parts of the story,  most

of the time.

Geezer

[tattoodrob]

3 hours ago, Khon Kaen Dave said:

cops son shot for a 500 baht debt.But the collector arrived in a white Toyota.What the f### has that got to do with it? Would he have still got  arrested if he turned up in a white Mazzarati????

Whats a Mazzarati??

 

[bangon04]

14 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Khun Yutranan does not look 21 and has a rather strange visage about him.

 

It is the "Freddie Mercury - the last photo"  look

[RichardColeman]

'Police pose with embalmed body' would be better headline !

[Sphere]

The floral print shorts are a clue.....if the eyeshadow wasn't enough.....