Boy Shoots Grandparents, Then Opens Fire at School in Nonthaburi
A boy in Nonthaburi killed his grandparents and opened fire at Thepsirin School after researching a U.S. mass shooting and stealing his grandfather's rifle from home.
On August 7 at 4 p.m., investigators revealed that the boy at Thepsirin School in Nonthaburi had searched for information about a mass shooting in the United States on July 30 using his personal computer at home before carrying out the attack. Earlier that morning, the boy learned that his grandfather kept a gun in a cabinet on the second floor of the house, so he used a chair to climb up and retrieve the rifle. Reports have not yet confirmed whether the grandfather, the gun's owner, forgot to lock the cabinet or if the boy stole the key. The storage area contained three boxes of ammunition with 50 rounds each. The boy took two boxes but dropped two rounds at home, meaning he took 98 rounds total to carry out the shooting. After removing the gun from storage, he shot his grandfather who was cooking, then his grandmother who was sleeping. Following the shootings, the boy traveled to school normally with the gun in his schoolbag. He attended his first class, which was supposed to be social studies, but a mathematics teacher was substituting instead. The boy then began shooting, targeting the mathematics teacher first, then firing at anyone he encountered until police surrounded him from multiple directions and he took his own life.
