A 14-year-old boy was arrested earlier this month for using a modified gun to open fire on shoppers at Siam Paragon shopping mall. The shooting resulted in three deaths and injury to four others. To prevent such tragic events from happening in the future, media platform The101.world together with Kid For Kids, Child and Family Policy Knowledge Center, recently organised a forum to discuss what people can learn from the event.
Dr Deja Piyavhatkul, a psychiatrist at Thainakarin Hospital, said the Siam Paragon mass shooting was the fourth incident reported by media in Thailand. This event is especially traumatising because the perpetrator is a teenager. The psychiatrist said he had previously urged the police to organise a multidisciplinary meeting, so they could gather knowledge from various fields to prevent mass shootings. Unfortunately, such meetings never took…
