Princha is captured on
security-camera footage at a PTT gas station at the Kasemphol-Khao Maikaew
intersection of Route 331 firing shots at the attendant.
Patcharapol Panrak
Police are searching for a Bangkok man who allegedly shot
at a Plutaluang gas station attendant in a drunken dispute over petrol and
window cleaner.
An arrest warrant was issued Sept. 13 for Princha
Prakornsombat, 22, who failed to surrender to police two days earlier. He
faces attempted murder and illegal weapons charges.
The son of a former Bangkok police officer, Princha was
captured on security-camera footage at a PTT gas station at the
Kasemphol-Khao Maikaew intersection of Route 331 Sept. 11 harassing and
threatening 18-year-old attendant Anan Daengkerd.
A reportedly drunk Princha began shouting at Anan after
the attendant asked him to confirm a request to fill his orange Nissan. He
then went into a rage after the teen tried to clean the car’s windshield.
Friends in the car tried to restrain Princha as he got
out of the vehicle and fired three shots from an unidentified handgun at
Anan. Princha then smashed a mirror at the station before being hauled back
into the car by friends. The car then sped off on Route 331.
Princha’s father, former policeman Lertchai
Prakorbsombat, said he’d contacted his son, who agreed to surrender.
However, he never showed at Plutaluang Police Station.
