The Thai father of a young man gunned down in a neighbouring junkyard is asking why the owner didn’t just chase him away rather than shoot him.
The weekly dive into the backwaters of the kingdom’s crime scene has thrown up another story which exposes the everyday horror of living with mental health problems in rural Thailand, Bangkok Post reported.
Kobsak, 30 years old, was a drug addict with psychiatric problems. He was gunned down by a neighbour in his seventies, Anusak Kittirattana.
Anusak was alone at his home in Chachoengsao last weekend when at about 1pm he heard the distinct sound of an intruder. Thieves had broken into his place repeatedly over the past year, five times this year alone.
“When I confronted him, he rushed at me so I grabbed my gun from the head of my bed and shot at him. I didn’t wait to find out if I hit him and ran out to seek help.”
The bullet…
