A daring armed theft of a gold store in Khon Kaen has resulted in a manhunt with authorities now providing a 50,000 baht reward for any data that results in the capture of the thief. The robbery took place at a gold shop within a division store yesterday evening and was captured by a security digital camera.
The footage exhibits a person dressed in denims, a white T-shirt that says, “Why So Serious”, and a black hood covering his face wandering into the gold retailer situated on the second ground of the Central Plaza Department Store in Mueang Khon Kaen District. The retailer was busy and none of the customers or staff appeared to notice him enter with a gun aspiring to rob the place. It wasn’t till he fired a single shot on the ceiling that everyone noticed him and scrambled to get away.
He then jumped over-the-counter, grabbed a handful of gold necklaces, jumped back over the counter and fired another warning shot. As folks scattered in worry, he ran out of the shop. There had been no injuries to the purchasers or workers in the course of the robbery. Another CCTV nearby captured footage of the robber fleeing and running in the path of the town pillar.
Roadmap released an announcement saying the shop had recovered to operating normal business once more after the flurry of police investigators, however the suspect remains to be at giant. The Khon Kaen Provincial Police have supplied a reward of up to 50,000 baht for any information that confirms and divulges the suspect’s particulars leading to an arrest.
In the manhunt thus far, police picked up a person at an area market who they believed was the suspect in question. But after interrogating him and taking DNA samples, they didn’t have enough evidence to cost him within the case. He was launched after the interrogation..