Rescue workers tend to Prinya Harsner before
transferring her to the hospital.
Patcharapol Panrak
Armed Sattahip men assaulted the female owner of a
Walking Street restaurant and destroyed her BMW after four male friends
abandoned her in front of a Sattahip restaurant.
Prinya Harsner, 36, suffered cuts and bruises to her
face and body in the 1:30 a.m. attack in front of the Thao Thalay
Restaurant on Soi Sattahip-Sukhumvit 45 Dec. 24. Heavily intoxicated,
she was transferred to Queen Sirikit Hospital for treatment.
At the scene, police found her bronze BMW 730i
heavily dented and all its windows broken.
While Prinya was too drunk and injured to give police
a full statement, she told officers at the scene she’d been partying
with four male companions and, after leaving the club, had been run off
the road by a gang of men in a white sedan who fired gunshots into the
air before forcing them to stop. Once they did, her guy friends ran
away, leaving her to face the armed gunmen alone.
A 16-year-old witness corroborated her story, saying
the white sedan had been tailgating Prinya’s BMW before one of its
occupants fired a gun into the air. The car then race ahead and cut it
off, forcing the BMW to stop.
The teenage witness said the four men with Prinya
fled after seeing the gunmen, who jumped on the hood and trunk of the
car, bashing in the windows while others assaulted her.
Police say the motive for the attack is unknown, but
could stem from an earlier dispute at the club or perhaps was due to
road rage over the drunken women’s driving.
