POLICE increased the reward for information leading to the capture of a man who shot dead a young Myanmar worker at Khon Kaen Hospital to 50,000 baht while confident he will be arrested soon, Thai Rath newspaper said last evening (June 7).
At 5.30 p.m. Pol. Maj. Gen. Noppakao Somanus, commander of Provincial Police Region 4, and investigators from Khon Kaen City police station, said the criminal used a 9mm pistol to kill the young Myanmar man on the 5th floor of the hospital.
Security guards at the hospital showed police investigators the route and timeline the criminal used to enter the hospital and escape with fingerprints lifted at four points.
One was on the handrail of elevator number two which he used to go up to the 5th floor and again come down, two at handrails along the route he used to get in and out of the hospital and one on the hospital signage pole at gate number two.
The security guard on duty at the time told police that when the criminal arrived he parked his vehicle just 10 metres away from the hospital and entered the building via the emergency doorway. He made two trips to the convenience store, while he did not initially buy anything he returned to buy three bottles of drinking water to make it appear that he is visiting a relative.
He then went up the elevator to the fifth floor where the young Myanmar man was using his mobile phone while waiting for surgery and after killing him escaped from the hospital building the same route he came in.
He spoke to a tuk-tuk driver before crossing the road and driving off in a pickup truck.
Khon Kaen police are urgently collecting evidence and tracking down the killer and while confident he will soon be apprehended, they have increased the reward for helping capture him from 10,000 to 50,000 baht.
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Top and Front Page: Screengrab images of the killer captured by surveillance cameras and police investigators lifting a fingerprint from the hospital’s signage pole. Photos: Thai Rath
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