Arrest gun toting Pattaya policeman’s son
Police
have Jirayu Luangsakda under control at the scene of the shootout.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Banglamung police shot and killed a motorcyclist who ran
through a Pattaya checkpoint and allegedly fired upon officers to evade
capture.
Sarawut Ratanapahira, 34, sustained two 11 mm gunshot
wounds to the head and chest last Tuesday under a canal bridge on a remote
soi in Nongprue Moo 6. Beside him laid a 9 mm pistol and four expended
shells.
Banglamung deputy chief of crime suppression Lt. Capt.
Narong Prajim said he and Capt. Ratti Wongwej were manning a checkpoint
about 500 m. from the dead man at Soi Boonnak when Sarawut and friend Jirayu
Luangsakda, 25, blew past without stopping. The officers pursued.
In their escape attempt, the pair crashed the motorbike
and officers captured Jirayu - the son of a Pattaya policeman - who had a
loaded 12-guage shotgun.
Sarawut meanwhile, shot at the pursuing police, who
returned fire, killing him.
Jirayu tearfully confessed he’d been smoking marijuana
with a friend when Sarawut rode up and asked him to help transport some guns
to another man. While en route, the policeman’s son backed out and asked
Sarawut to drive him home. They took back roads in Nongprue and didn’t
expect to run into a police checkpoint.
