Dusit Thunprasert points
to where a bullet entered his car through the windshield.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
A teacher was shot in the head by a bullet during a suspected random
drive-by shooting in Nong Plalai.
Dusit Thunprasert, 26, was only grazed by the bullet during the Feb. 14
incident near the Papermill Transport Co. on Soi 1 in Nongket Yai. A
fellow teacher passenger in the car was uninjured. Dusit was treated at
Banglamung Hospital.
Dusit told police he was driving inebriated colleague Patcharee
Bunchuay, 28, home from a teacher party they attended when she asked to
pull over because she felt sick. When he did, a car passed by and he
heard 4-5 loud cracking sounds and felt the bullet strike him.
The bullets, in fact, flattened all four tires, with one going through
the back seat.
Banglamung Police Superintendent Col. Thummanoon Mankhong dismissed
theories the shooting was intentional, saying Dusit only recently moved
to the area. He speculated troublemaking youths known to use guns in the
area simply saw a parked car as an opportunity for violence. Area
closed-circuit television cameras are being reviewed in the
investigation.
