Taxi driver shot nine times, found dead near his cab

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Taxi driver shot nine times, found dead near his cab

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Maria del Mar/Flickr

 

BANGKOK: -- Early this morning, a cabbie was discovered dead near his cab in Samut Sakhon with nine gunshot wounds.

 

Police reported that the driver was discovered at 1:30am in Muang district. His Toyota Altis cab was parked by the body.

 

He has been positively identified as 53-year-old Sithisak Prakmas, from Surin province. His wife, 49-year-old Prachuap Khamjin, was notified and said she talked to him on the phone two hours earlier and that he had been headed home, reported Bangkok Post.

 

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/12/13/taxi-driver-shot-nine-times-found-dead-near-his-cab

 

-- © Copyright Coconuts Bangkok 2016-12-13

[greenchair]

This is the saddest story. 

This poor man was finishing his shift ,called his wife to say he was on his way home. Seems he picked up a last passenger on the way home. Just terrible. I really hope they catch the person that did this. He had 9 bullet holes in his chest and a nasty bang on the head. 

Rip. Condolences to the wife. 

[theguyfromanotherforum]

terrible

[lee b]

Terrible, poor Guy RIP to him..

[off road pat]

R.I.P. Old fella ....

[dddave]

This really gets to me, as it did more than 40 years ago.   I drove a taxi in Boston, USA while I was a student in the early 1970's. I drove on a mid-shift, Noon to midnight and it was as dangerous then as it is now.  We had a bit of extra security with a heavy, plexiglass partition between the driver and the passenger seat but no one I knew had any intention of testing it against a gun.

One slow summer night, I was in a long taxi queue at a major hotel. It was hot so I stood outside my cab and was soon having a conversation with the cabbie in front of me in line.  He was a pleasant fellow, late 50's with a neatly trimmed white beard.  The US was in a recession  at the time, He told me he was a laid-off engineer and like many, was driving a taxi to make ends meet. 

We had a pleasant conversation until finally the line began to move.  A fare climbed into his cab and he was off.  I got my own fare shortly thereafter.

Late that night, as I was in the gas line waiting to fill up before turning the cab in, our radio dispatcher came on the air with an announcement that a cabbie had been found dead in his taxi.  The following morning, the victim's picture was on the front page...it was the fellow I had been talking to on the hotel line.

What kept tormenting me then and comes back to me now was the totally random series of events that put him in the wrong place where he picked up the passenger that killed him...that if he had been the cab in back of me rather than in front, if had not made a particular red light; literally thousands of events that day that put him in that place, at that time...and how easily it could have been me.

Driving a taxi is a nasty, sucky job.  Ninty-nine per-cent of the drivers I have had in Bangkok have taken me to where I wanted to go without a problem or argument.  This guy, like most of the drivers was just doing his job and providing for his family.  He did not deserve to be killed.

 

[trogers]

The high risk in picking up passengers at venues of booze and drugs at wee hours of the morning...

 

Much safer to have done the airport route.

[worgeordie]

Shot 9 times,someone wanted to make sure he was dead,

thats overkill,lets hope they catch the perpetrator quickly,

as he is one dangerous person RIP  Sithisak.

regards worgeordie

[Brer Fox]

2 hours ago, trogers said:

The high risk in picking up passengers at venues of booze and drugs at wee hours of the morning...

 

Much safer to have done the airport route.

Forever the expert on all things known to man. If there is anything we mere mortals don't know please be kind enough to inform us.

[Rhys]

RIP   

[greenchair]

3 hours ago, dddave said:

This really gets to me, as it did more than 40 years ago.   I drove a taxi in Boston, USA while I was a student in the early 1970's. I drove on a mid-shift, Noon to midnight and it was as dangerous then as it is now.  We had a bit of extra security with a heavy, plexiglass partition between the driver and the passenger seat but no one I knew had any intention of testing it against a gun.

One slow summer night, I was in a long taxi queue at a major hotel. It was hot so I stood outside my cab and was soon having a conversation with the cabbie in front of me in line.  He was a pleasant fellow, late 50's with a neatly trimmed white beard.  The US was in a recession  at the time, He told me he was a laid-off engineer and like many, was driving a taxi to make ends meet. 

We had a pleasant conversation until finally the line began to move.  A fare climbed into his cab and he was off.  I got my own fare shortly thereafter.

Late that night, as I was in the gas line waiting to fill up before turning the cab in, our radio dispatcher came on the air with an announcement that a cabbie had been found dead in his taxi.  The following morning, the victim's picture was on the front page...it was the fellow I had been talking to on the hotel line.

What kept tormenting me then and comes back to me now was the totally random series of events that put him in the wrong place where he picked up the passenger that killed him...that if he had been the cab in back of me rather than in front, if had not made a particular red light; literally thousands of events that day that put him in that place, at that time...and how easily it could have been me.

Driving a taxi is a nasty, sucky job.  Ninty-nine per-cent of the drivers I have had in Bangkok have taken me to where I wanted to go without a problem or argument.  This guy, like most of the drivers was just doing his job and providing for his family.  He did not deserve to be killed.

 

This story really touched my heart. 

That's amazing that you are here to tell it. 

[Strange]

I have to ask, and this isn't victim blaming, but shot 9 times?

 

It makes me wonder if the driver was affiliated with anything else other than driving a taxi. 

 

Thats either a message, or some very serious anger/retaliation. 

 

Of course it could be nothing and it was just a stone cold crazy. 

[greenchair]

6 minutes ago, Strange said:

I have to ask, and this isn't victim blaming, but shot 9 times?

 

It makes me wonder if the driver was affiliated with anything else other than driving a taxi. 

 

Thats either a message, or some very serious anger/retaliation. 

 

Of course it could be nothing and it was just a stone cold crazy. 

 

I had thought that too. They really wanted to make sure he was dead. 

[trogers]

1 hour ago, seahorse said:

Stop "victim blaming".

 

Nine rounds is not an act at the spur of a moment. It's either an assassination or an act of mental madness...and the latter is usually from a passenger that is under the influence of booze or drugs.

[balo]

Theres probably more to this story , no reason to shoot a guy 9 times in the chest if its not personal .  

 

[mcfish]

This is bizarre. 9 shots? Sounds like A payback.. Im pretty sure there will be more to this than the usual shit reports on TV

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[Strange]

1 hour ago, greenchair said:

I had thought that too. They really wanted to make sure he was dead. 

 

I shoot a lot of guns when Im at home.  9 trigger pulls is a lot. 

 

Does anyone know what caliber the gun was?

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed. 

[digibum]

When I read, shot 9 times, I thought for sure the BiB were going to declare it a suicide.  I guess 8 is the magic number.  

 

 

[catman20]

police suspect no foul play and ruled as a suicide ???????????? case closed

[IamNoone88]

Dreadful.

[phantomfiddler]

I would say that the driver must have been up to something that he shouldn,t have ! 

[elgordo38]

15 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Shot 9 times,someone wanted to make sure he was dead,

thats overkill,lets hope they catch the perpetrator quickly,

as he is one dangerous person RIP  Sithisak.

regards worgeordie

Might it be a crime of passion? Nine times is really a lot. RIP