PHUKET: A second teenager has died on Phuket as a result of a shooting perpetrated by a rival teen gangster who cannot be named because he is aged just 17.
The gunplay that led to the two deaths and the wounding of a third boy outside the Phuket Vocational College in Phuket City yesterday has shocked the holiday island.
Residents are now asking whether Phuket police are dealing efficiently with teen gangs, and whether parents should be doing more to make sure their children do not become involved in gangs and violent faceoffs.
The boy who fired the fatal shots took his father's gun and drove his mother's car to the scene of the shooting, outside the school. Scores of students were in the area when the gunplay took place at lunchtime.
He fled the scene to a nearby hill where at first the three passengers who were in the car surrendered, then the boy gave himself up.
Shot dead on the spot was Sakkarin Kemboot, 17. He was hit by one bullet in the chest and another in the back. He had a large tattoo covering most of his chest.
The second dead boy, Piyawat Jadsang, 17, was dressed, like the wounded boy, in school uniform. He died overnight in Vachira Phuket Hospital.
In recent years, one of Phuket's developing social problems has been the arrival on the island of couples from other provinces who devote their energy to making money and leave the moral teaching of their children to schools.
Local residents have also not been immune from concentrating on careers and making money at the expense of giving their children a solid moral grounding.
The gunplay that led to the two deaths and the wounding of a third boy outside the Phuket Vocational College in Phuket City yesterday has shocked the holiday island.
Residents are now asking whether Phuket police are dealing efficiently with teen gangs, and whether parents should be doing more to make sure their children do not become involved in gangs and violent faceoffs.
The boy who fired the fatal shots took his father's gun and drove his mother's car to the scene of the shooting, outside the school. Scores of students were in the area when the gunplay took place at lunchtime.
He fled the scene to a nearby hill where at first the three passengers who were in the car surrendered, then the boy gave himself up.
Shot dead on the spot was Sakkarin Kemboot, 17. He was hit by one bullet in the chest and another in the back. He had a large tattoo covering most of his chest.
The second dead boy, Piyawat Jadsang, 17, was dressed, like the wounded boy, in school uniform. He died overnight in Vachira Phuket Hospital.
In recent years, one of Phuket's developing social problems has been the arrival on the island of couples from other provinces who devote their energy to making money and leave the moral teaching of their children to schools.
Local residents have also not been immune from concentrating on careers and making money at the expense of giving their children a solid moral grounding.
Whilst the police should certainly do more, the fact that he used his fathers gun and mothers car I would say points at the real issue. This lack of parental control is, as you quite rightly state in the article, caused mainly by parents greed for money and ignoring their kids who are allowed to get up to whatever they want with no repercussions at all. It's a very worrying cultural shift and needs to be addressed.
The govt could run tv campaigns in the evenings around this and things like road safety as well, running ads during the TV soaps that everyone is glued to each night. Ads that are carefully planned and I a similar vein to the soaps, high profile actors etc could work wonders in the same way the anti drink driving ads worked in the UK in the 80s.
Just a thought !
Posted by Amazing Thailand on January 30, 2015 07:04