A TAIWANESE man who was shot dead at an abandoned restaurant on Suvarnabhumi Airport road 4 had before his death stolen a car in Pattaya with a fellow countryman, TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb 26).
Pattaya police station said on Saturday afternoon a Taiwanese woman, Ms. Aiju, 33, filed a report that a brand new sedan parked inside her house was stolen by two men, believed to also be Taiwanese.
Surveillance camera clips showed the two Taiwanese men in her house, one of whom was found shot dead at the abandoned restaurant on Suvarnabhumi Airport road 4 at 11 a.m. yesterday with police investigators saying he had been dead for four to six hours.
About 3,000 baht was found on the body of the deceased who had a big tattoo on his arm and other Chinese-language tattoos on his body. His body was sent to Ramathibodi Chakri Naruebodindra Hospital for autopsy.
In the surveillance camera clips the two Taiwanese men had searched the house and then drove away with the owner’s car.
Mr. Piak, a security guard, told police that he has been working on the night shift at this housing estate for two months now. There are usually many people coming and going from this house at night but he did not see the car being stolen however found out there was no one at home when the theft occurred.
Police have identified five suspects in the murder of the Taiwanese man with one being a Thai woman and the other four Taiwanese men. Three of the men had arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 1.50 a.m. before he was killed and all five have now flown to Cambodia.
Police are continuing to investigate this case and determine whether the five suspects planned ahead to kill the deceased man.
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Top: The abandoned restaurant where the Taiwanese man was found shot dead. Photo: Thai Rath
Front Page: The house in Pattaya from where the sedan was stolen. Photo: TV Channel 7
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