Police shot one of their own after opening fire on a pickup truck driven by an allegedly drunken Danish man who refused to stop at a Jomtien Beach checkpoint.
Sgt. Ruangchai Prachaipoom, a Sriracha-based officer cooperating with Chonburi police in area checkpoints, suffered a single shot to the leg Jan. 19 and was treated at Pattaya Memorial Hospital.
Emergency workers tend to Sgt. Ruangchai Prachaipoom’s gunshot wound to his leg.
The shooting occurred when Pattaya traffic police shot at the Toyota Vigo driven by 57-year-old Vagn Zehngraff, trying to stop the truck after it smashed into a motorbike on Jomtien Second Road and ran the checkpoint at the Pratamnak Road intersection.
Officers fired four shots as the truck sped up Pratamnak Soi 5, hitting two tires, but also striking an officer in pursuit.
