Ex-Soldier Shoots Girlfriend's New Partner Dead in Bangkok
A 19-year-old man was shot dead in his car in Bangkok on July 12 after an ex-soldier and estranged husband of his girlfriend opened fire, critically wounding the woman as well.
On July 12, 2569 (2026), Udomsuk Police Station received a report of a fatal shooting on Soi Chelemphrachatirat Rama IX 30, Lane 28, Dokmai Subdistrict, Prawet District, Bangkok, in the evening. Officers led by Pol. Col. Chisanuphong Suriyananth, the station commander, arrived to investigate and found the body of Rathaphoomi (known as Feem), a 19-year-old, shot multiple times in the head, neck, and chest. A 36-year-old woman named Ms. Taan, the victim's girlfriend, was also shot in the chest, shoulder, and abdomen and was severely injured before being transported to the hospital.
According to the victim's 42-year-old mother, Waraporn, around 6 p.m. she was bathing a dog inside the house when her son went to pick up his girlfriend from work at a nearby factory. He parked the car beside the house with his girlfriend inside when a man named Golf, the ex-husband of Ms. Taan who was a soldier stationed in Ratchaburi Province, drove up in a black Mazda and parked in front. Without speaking, Golf drove away, but the son called his mother for advice. She told him to stay in the car for safety. Minutes later, she heard approximately 10 gunshots. When she went outside, she found her son dead in the vehicle and Ms. Taan critically wounded.
The shooter, Golf, is the ex-husband of Ms. Taan. The family believes he had harbored resentment since the woman began dating the victim. The mother expressed anguish that her 19-year-old son had barely begun his life and appealed to police to arrest and prosecute the perpetrator as quickly as possible.
