Woman and her son shot by robber on motorcycle
Son succumbs to gunshot wounds
Boonlua Chatree
An armed robber on a motorcycle shot a woman and her son before escaping with a 3 baht gold chain that the woman had been wearing.
Banglamung police station on the evening of September 4 received a report from Banglamung Hospital that two people, a mother and her son, had been admitted with gunshot wounds. The woman was gravely injured, but the son was dead on arrival.
At the emergency room police discovered 58-year-old Mrs Mukda Thamprayot, who had been shot to the left side of her head. The bullet had lodged in the back of her skull. Another shot had hit her in the left knee, and this bullet also remained in her body. Mukda’s son Monchai Thamprayot, age 29, had been shot in the left side of his chest, with another shot to the torso and a third to his left knee. All the bullets remained in his body.
Mukda’s sister-in-law, 59-year old Mrs A-Nong Thamprayot, had accompanied the two to hospital. She told police that the three of them had gone by motorcycle to the market. They had returned home with A-Nong riding pillion on Monchai’s motorcycle with Mukda following behind on her own motorbike.
About halfway home, behind Thuanthong Temple in Pong district, a man on a motorcycle and wearing a full helmet had cut in front of Mukda’s motorcycle. He forced her to hand over the 3 baht gold chain and amulet she was wearing around her neck. Mukda shouted to her son for help, and Monchai turned his motorcycle round. The robber shot Monchai three times and then fired two shots at Mukda before escaping with the gold chain, although the amulet was dropped in the road. A-Nong said she was not shot because the robber had no bullets left.