Two family members killed and another injured in a Phetchaburi market shooting
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A young man and his mother were shot and killed while his father was injured following a dispute with another market vendor at a roadside market in Phetchaburi’s Khao Yoi district.
Police say the shooting took place at about 5.30am yesterday morning (Saturday) at the Nong Prong market in Moo 5 village in Tambon Nong Prong.
Police say that 24 year old Sitthichoke Losong was shot dead at the market while his mother 43 year old Supassaras Khamthim died later at the Phra Chom Klao Hospital. Sitthichoke was shot twice in the chest and once in his right arm, according to police.
Police are searching for another vendor, identified only as ‘Nui’, who allegedly shot the three. Other vendors said Nui and Sitthichoke, who had stalls facing each other, often quarrelled.
In the latest dispute, Sitthichoke’s parents joined him in a verbal dispute with Nui before the parents left and the two vendors continued their heated quarrel.
During the heat of the dispute, Nui pulled out his gun and shot Sitthichoke who tried to run away but collapsed about 20 metres later. Nui then shot the mother, who was standing nearby, and shot Sitthichoke’s father, who was sitting in his pickup truck nearby.
