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Frenchman kills son, 2, in murder-suicide
Bottles of Nembutal, a
Danish-made drug used as an animal tranquilizer and sedative, were found
at the scene.
Boonlua Chatree
A Frenchman slit the throat and poisoned his 2-year-old son
before injecting himself with the same tranquilizer once used for prison
executions in the United States.
Horrified police and medical personnel discovered the bodies of Yonatan
Kerner, 28, and toddler Oren July 7 in a tiny one-room apartment at the
Park Lane Condominiums on Soi Wat Bunyakanjanaram. They’d been dead for
at least three days.
Neighbors said the two, along with the boy’s mother, had been living for
some time in the 20 sq. meter room, but that the mother had disappeared
more than a week earlier.
Kerner apparently had injected the 2-year-old with Nembutal, a
Danish-made drug used as an animal tranquilizer and sedative and, until
2013, in some U.S. states to carry out capital punishment in
death-sentence cases. Drug maker H. Lundbeck A/S banned the sale of
Nembutal to prisons following discovery of its use in Texas last year.
Following the injection, the father slit his boy’s throat and tied a
plastic bag around his head.
He then injected himself with a lethal dose of the sedative.
A note left at the scene partially read, “To whoever finds this … My
wife (name) abandoned me and our child…”
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