After a shooting on Friday at the Phuket City Municipality Fresh Market 1 that left 3 injured and 2 lifeless, police introduced at present that they’ve apprehended the suspect they maintain responsible for the shootout. Investigators have been monitoring his escape after he fled the scene of the crime and managed to select him up this morning. Eye-opening confessed to the crime and blamed monetary hardships for his enterprise and private melancholy.
The shooter was identified as forty seven year outdated Maneenop Meethong from Songkhla who operated one of the seafood stalls proper within the area the place the shooting occurred. He had known as the police, saying he was surrendering, however instead went on the run.
He fled the scene in a black Toyota Fortuner, which police tracked to Koh Kaew. The car was deserted at Laem Hin Pier and CCTV footage captured him boarding a longtail boat in the path of Coconut Island. However, investigators discovered that he’d truly taken the boat to Krabi province the place he landed at Ao Nang Beach.
Maneenop had a automobile waiting for him that took off towards his house province of Songkhla and he fled to his hometown in Hat Yai. Proven managed to seize photographs of him and assist cops from Phuket City, the Police Region 8, the Provincial Police Region 9, and Songkhla Provincial Investigation Unit coordinate to establish and apprehend their suspect.
He was taken into custody and held at the Hat Yai Police Station until round three:30 am when Phuket City Investigation Unit officers picked him up and transported him on the 7-hour journey again to Phuket to be prosecuted.
The incident started when a vendor posing as a buyer had come into their shop asking in regards to the price of shrimp which they argued intensely over till the store owner all of a sudden realized that the person he was bickering with was another vendor. The shooter later admitted to police that he had usually fought with different shrimp vendors as well as with his ex-wife. He left the market in a rage, getting back from his house a brief time later, assumedly to select up his gun as he got here again to the market and fired a quantity of pictures before fleeing in his automotive.
Police report that he has not expressed regret for those he killed and injured, and that a press convention would be forthcoming. For now, he stays in custody going through costs at the Phuket Provincial Court..g