Parents Find 22-Year-Old Son Dead in Orchard Home
A 22-year-old man was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his family's orchard house in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province on August 3, after sending his father a final message expressing regret and psychological distress.
Heartbroken parents discovered their 22-year-old son dead in a house within an orchard, with his final message to his father now painfully revealing what would be his last goodbye. On August 3, police from Rabao Phrai Station responded to a report of a shooting death inside a fruit orchard in Sri Maha Phot District, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, arriving with forensic officials and rescue workers. At the single-story orchard house, officers found the body of a 22-year-old man (pseudonym) sitting on a rattan chair with a single gunshot wound to the right temple. An 11mm handgun was discovered placed in the rack on a Honda motorcycle parked outside. The father told investigators that his son had secretly taken his gun. At 4:51 PM, the son sent a Line message saying: "Dad, I'm sorry I couldn't be what you wanted. Thank you so much for making my life more colorful."
The father, Worrawuth, expressed regret that he had not suspected his son would do something so tragic. Around 6:00 PM, he went to the orchard house looking for his son and found him already deceased. Police believe the son may have been suffering from accumulated psychological stress typical of adolescence, compounded by life pressures.
The mother, speaking through tears, revealed that her son was normally a devoted caretaker of the orchard while she worked at her beauty salon. The night before his death, at 9:00 PM, she slipped and fell in the bathroom, and her son came to help her with concern, saying: "Mom, I love you. Please take care of yourself." She responded: "If you love me, then take care of yourself too." She never imagined those would be his final words. She also shared that at 4:00 AM on the morning of his death, her son sent her a message, but when she checked it, the message had been deleted, suggesting he had been stressed and troubled about something he never shared with anyone, culminating in this tragic incident.
Police documented evidence at the scene and sent the body for a detailed autopsy according to legal procedure before releasing it to relatives for religious rites.
