Gunman's Daughter Opens Up: Father Pressured by Ex-Wife's Family Refusing Court Orders, Pleads for Understanding
A gunman's daughter claims her father shot three relatives in Kanchanaburi on May 6 after his ex-wife's family refused to transfer a tractor per a court order, preventing him from securing funds for crops and his daughter's tuition.
The gunman's daughter stormed her father's ex-wife's house, fatally shooting her former father-in-law and ex-brother-in-law, and tearfully revealed that her father was pressured by the other party's refusal to comply with court orders regarding asset division. She is appealing for public understanding.
In the case of 47-year-old Chayant, a former son-in-law, he used a firearm to attack 53-year-old Sarinee (ex-mother-in-law) causing serious injury, before shooting 35-year-old Satya (ex-brother-in-law) and 64-year-old Songuan (ex-father-in-law) who died. The incident occurred on the evening of May 6 at a residence in Lad Yai subdistrict, Muang district, Kanchanaburi province.
On May 8, 2025, reporter spoke with 27-year-old Nathanenan (Min), daughter of Chayant, the suspect who committed the shooting that killed his ex-father-in-law and ex-brother-in-law, as well as seriously wounding his ex-mother-in-law. She revealed the reasons that prompted her father to decide to commit this brutal act.
Chayant's daughter stated that the pressure her father faced likely stemmed from the asset division issue involving marital property between her father and his ex-wife, who separated in late 2024. The ex-wife filed a case at Kanchanaburi Provincial Court, which ruled on a clear division of assets between both parties.
Her father received rights to harvest sugarcane from rented land totaling 750 rai, with harvesting rights to 300 rai, plus rights to one tractor, one pickup truck, and one trailer. Her father wanted to use the tractor as collateral with the sugar mill to obtain funds for the next sugarcane planting season.
Her father requested that the ex-wife's family help transfer the tractor's ownership rights according to the court order, but the ex-wife's family, particularly the ex-mother-in-law Sarinee, refused to transfer it and demanded 100,000 baht as an exchange fee. This prevented her father from using the tractor as collateral to secure funds for the next sugarcane crop.
Her father became stressed because he had no money to pay tuition for his younger daughter who was studying nursing. On the day of the incident, he said he was going to check on the fields, but ultimately went to his ex-wife's house, leading to the shooting.
Min further revealed that she believes the pressure from the ex-wife's family's refusal to transfer the tractor according to the court order was definitely the cause that prompted her father's actions. After the shooting, her father called her around 2:00 AM saying he wanted to end his own life to resolve the problem, but she convinced him to turn himself in to police.
Although her father is not dead today, he is like a dead man because he has a chronic illness but must spend the rest of his life in prison. She wants those following this case to understand the circumstances that led her father to commit this act. She acknowledges that her father's method of solving the problem this way was wrong, but it was because her father had no other options and felt cornered into making this decision.
Attorney Somhuang Intabut, who handled the asset and marital property division case for Chayant, confirmed that the court's asset division ruling matched the information provided by Chayant's daughter. He stated that he and Chayant had repeatedly attempted to follow up and demand compliance with the Kanchanaburi Provincial Court's orders regarding asset transfers, but the ex-wife's family remained unresponsive and refused to comply with the court orders.
