News Forum - Gunmen shoot and kill Canadian at Phuket resort

[Thaiger]

Two gunmen jumped out from bushes and shot and killed a Canadian man at The Beachfront Hotel Phuket in Rawai, a village in Phuket, last night. Chalong police said the resort’s CCTV footage showed the victim had just pulled up in front of the hotel in his car. The two men then jumped out and shot him 10 times until he fell on the ground. Police are now investigating the attack. The victim is 31 year old Mandeep Singh. He was born in India, but had a Canadian passport. A cleaner who worked at the resort found Singh’s dead body […]

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[Cabra]

Targeted. Find his girlfriend and you will probably find the shooters.

[Nivram]

Need more details before an intelligent opinion can be made.

[Lowseasonlover]

It all happens where I live 

[longwood50]

Stay tuned.  There has to be more to this story.  No one just gets ambushed for no reason. 

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

46 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

As a tourist destination, Puhket has its share of crime involving both Thais and tourists. Last Sunday, a foreign man stole 3,600 baht from a Phuket cab driver.

Compared with a murder....

[steve860]

He was a gangster, deported from Canada, seems like poetic justice.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/former-b-c-gangster-shot-to-death-in-thailand

[TimothyN]

More details have been added to the story

[Sandbar]

This guy has been dealing with the wrong people. He took ten rounds. Someone wanted to make a statement!

 

[Guest1]

So the Canadians can deport a Canadian Passport Holder? But he's still Canadian

Interesting story!  

[steve860]

23 minutes ago, steve860 said:

He was a gangster, deported from Canada, seems like poetic justice.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/former-b-c-gangster-shot-to-death-in-thailand

 

7 minutes ago, Sandbar said:

This guy has been dealing with the wrong people. He took ten rounds. Someone wanted to make a statement!

Good riddance.

[Jason]

Definately not random. Definately a targeted attack. Lots more to this story than the report tells. 

[Guest1]

10 minutes ago, Sandbar said:

This guy has been dealing with the wrong people. He took ten rounds. Someone wanted to make a statement!

10 out of 19 (a full mag?) , that is, in my eyes, more passion than a statement! Much less  professional shooters/killers!

[Stonker]

25 minutes ago, steve860 said:

He was a gangster, deported from Canada, seems like poetic justice.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/former-b-c-gangster-shot-to-death-in-thailand

Thanks - very revealing.

As he was shot ten times, and nineteen empty cases were found indicating at least nineteen rounds were fired, it seems a bit unlikely no-one noticed until "A cleaner who worked at the resort found Singh’s dead body the next morning."

[Stonker]

6 minutes ago, Guest1 said:

So the Canadians can deport a Canadian Passport Holder? But he's still Canadian

Interesting story!  

He was a dual national, having moved to Canada when he was seven and entitled to Canadian citizenship by marriage.

Just the sort of upstanding citizen Thailand's looking for.

[oldschooler]

3 minutes ago, Stonker said:

Thanks - very revealing.

As he was shot ten times, and nineteen empty cases were found indicating at least nineteen rounds were fired, it seems a bit unlikely no-one noticed until "A cleaner who worked at the resort found Singh’s dead body the next morning."

Such Indians (annoyingly) often have two western passports.

So if he retained say a UK or USA passport he could indeed be Deported from Canada with Canadian nationality stripped. Mystery is why he still had his Canadian passport ..

[Stonker]

11 minutes ago, Guest1 said:

10 out of 19 (a full mag?) , that is, in my eyes, more passion than a statement! Much less  professional shooters/killers!

A full mag is normally 9 - 14 depending on the calibre.

Professional hits of 'two in the chest, one in the head' are for the movies.

[oldschooler]

2 minutes ago, Stonker said:

He was a dual national, having moved to Canada when he was seven and entitled to Canadian citizenship by marriage.

Just the sort of upstanding citizen Thailand's looking for.

If Deported that “Canadian citizenship” is gone ….. but kind of moot now. Probably thought he could come here and deal with the Thai mafia on his terms…. first & last mistake here…..

 

[Stonker]

1 minute ago, oldschooler said:

Such Indians (annoyingly) often have two western passports.

So if he retained say a UK or USA passport he could indeed be Deported from Canada with Canadian nationality stripped. Mystery is why he still had his Canadian passport ..

My guess would be that he'd lost his Canadian nationality and simply had a 'spare' Canadian passport in another name.

My point on the 19 rounds fired and the cleaner finding the body was that there's no way that nobody heard anything and nobody noticed nineteen rounds being fired in front of a hotel!

[oldschooler]

4 minutes ago, Stonker said:

A full mag is normally 9 - 14 depending on the calibre.

Professional hits of 'two in the chest, one in the head' are for the movies.

Recalls judge asking Soldier I why the terrorist corpse had 27 bullets.

” Magazine only holds 30 m’lud ”

[Guest1]

4 minutes ago, Stonker said:

A full mag is normally 9 - 14 depending on the calibre.

Professional hits of 'two in the chest, one in the head' are for the movies.

Yes, standard mags, you 're probably right. Just there are lots of 19 rounds mags available. Not only for Glocks. 

I just missed the part, that the video is showing (should show?) two people shooting.

On the other hand, the bullet casings on the ground look a bit like only one was shooting, coming from the bushes and walking around the body, towards the road. Coincidence? 

Police will find out if two guns where involved, methinks.

I would like to know where the 9 bullets are, which did not hit the guy!

[TimothyN]

UPDATE

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/gunmen-shoot-and-kill-canadian-in-rawai-phuket-2

[oldschooler]

9 minutes ago, Stonker said:

My guess would be that he'd lost his Canadian nationality and simply had a 'spare' Canadian passport in another name.

My point on the 19 rounds fired and the cleaner finding the body was that there's no way that nobody heard anything and nobody noticed nineteen rounds being fired in front of a hotel!

“Spare” passports so very risky since 9/11. Fingerprints / Facial cross checks these days would likely eventually flag his true identity unless he was a spook or stayed in one “easy” country for years without crossing airport borders.

See why he might have chosen Thailand then …

no phone call made as no public phones anymore and private phones all traceable now which would be a risk to caller here.no reason to take that risk as guy has to be presumed dead from so many rounds fired

[Cathat]

 

a shooting at night could easily go unnoticed.

1/It's chinese new time and strings of fire crackers going off at all hours of the day and night is not uncommon.

2/if a pro hit the weapons were probably silenced.

[Stonker]

12 minutes ago, Cathat said:

a shooting at night could easily go unnoticed.

1/It's chinese new time and strings of fire crackers going off at all hours of the day and night is not uncommon.

Oh come on!

Nineteen rounds from a pistol or two, even to the untrained ear, doesn't sound anything like 'fire crackers'.

14 minutes ago, Cathat said:

2/if a pro hit the weapons were probably silenced.

>Waaaay too many movies!