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Head slap spurs kill

A Bangkok man who liked muscling into his friends’ disputes was shot dead for his troubles after intervening in a row set off by a love triangle.

Klong Tan police last week arrested Suphan “Keng” Jenkarn- ying, 31, for killing Nakhon Naka “Ice” Mulalin, also 31, and injuring a young man on whose behalf Ice intervened, Teerasak “Benz” Arjphongsa, 25.

The shooting took place in front of a tyre repair shop in soi Pattanakarn 20, sub-soi 9, Suan Luang, early on Jan 10.

Keng let off a salvo of six rounds from his revolver in what he says was a spur of the moment attack, after Ice slapped him over the head.

The first shot did not go as planned. Keng shot himself in the hand as he was pulling out his gun.

The bullet shattered on the ground with shrapnel bouncing off the road and hitting…