Police arrested a former Royal Thai Navy (RTN) officer who shot one girl and sexually harassed one other woman at a local grocery in the northern province of Chiang Rai. How-to shocked the neighborhood after saying he may kill anyone because he was a former RTN officer.
Chaing Khong Police officers rushed to the incident scene at the grocery retailer within the Chaing Khong district after a resident tipped off the police yesterday night. Upon arrival, officers found the sufferer, 48 year outdated Nongnuch Saenboonma, with a severe gunshot wound to her abdomen, and rushed her to a hospital.
The gunman, 69 yr old Thana Hinsuwan, had been caught by the victim’s friends at the scene. The weapon used within the incident, a .38 pistol, was confiscated by the police. Thana’s inebriated state hindered any meaningful communication with officers on the scene.
The victim’s-friend, Thaworn Klatham, told reporters that the previous RTN officer drank four bottles of beer on the grocery store and later requested if he might sit with them and their 5 friends. He then ordered a bottle of alcohol to share with the group.
As the results of alcohol took maintain, Thana’s behaviour grew more and more inappropriate. The former RTN officer sexually harassed a woman sitting close to him by touching her breasts. Everybody on the table advised him to return residence for his security but Thana insisted on staying.
According to Thaworn, the sufferer, Nongnuch, attempted to convince Thana to contact his wife and go residence which made him indignant. Thana then drew a gun from a bag round his waist and all of a sudden shot Nongnuch within the abdomen. After the shooting, Thana screamed…
“I am a former soldier. I can kill anyone and I will kill all of you!”
Thaworn and his friend immediately wrestled Thana to the bottom and grabbed the gun from his hand.
An officer from the Chiang Khong Police Station, Ittiphon Chalathanyakit, advised ThaiRath that the victim was out of hazard and secure but remained underneath care at Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital.
According to Ittiphone, Thana faces two charges of tried homicide and using a gun in public with out permission. For shooting the gun in a public place, Thana will resist five years in jail, a fantastic of up to 10,000 baht, or both.
For the attempted homicide cost, the previous RTN officer Thana will face half of the punishment of a homicide cost, which states that whoever murders others shall be punished with life imprisonment or imprisonment from 15 to twenty years.