ANN/THE NATION – The Bangkok South Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Anawin Kaewkeb to death for the fatal shooting of a vocational student and a teacher in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei district on November 11, 2023.
Anawin, 20, a student from Pathumwan Institute of Technology, was a passenger on a motorcycle before dismounting and shooting Thanasorn Hongsawat, a 19-year-old freshman at Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok Uthenthawai Campus, police reported. The attack occurred outside the Khlong Toei branch of TMBThanachart Bank on Sunthon Kosa Road.
A stray bullet also struck Sirada Sinprasert, a 45-year-old computer instructor at Sacred Heart Convent School, who was withdrawing cash from a nearby ATM. Both victims died from their injuries.
The court has also ordered Anawin to pay THB6 million in compensation to the families of the deceased.
Police arrested 22 suspects linked to what is believed to be a revenge attack arising from a conflict between rival students of two vocational institutes in Bangkok, with the instructor being an unintended victim.
Anawin was arrested at a hideout in Chiang Mai province on December 19, 2023.
