A husband brutally shot his wife to death and left her body in the car. Neighbors who saw this immediately alerted the police, while the perpetrator fled inside the house and hid under a blanket. Meanwhile, the eldest child was at school, and teachers were unable to contact the parents to pick him up.
At 21:00 on 9 June, Police Lieutenant Colonel Yanapon Polyiam, an investigator at Phetkasem Police Station, received a report of a female murder victim found in a car, while the suspect was hiding in a house in the Bang Khae district of Bangkok. He promptly proceeded to the scene along with Police Colonel Theerachai Dedkhad, Deputy Commander of Metropolitan Police Division 9; Police Colonel Thitipong Siya, Chief of the Investigation Division of Metropolitan Police Division 9; forensic officials; a medical examiner from Siriraj Hospital’s Forensic Medicine Department; and volunteers from the Ruamkatanyu Foundation.
The scene was a three-story commercial building. In front of the building, a Honda sedan was found. On the driver's seat lay the body of a 36-year-old woman with a gunshot wound from a 9 mm firearm entering the left back of her head and exiting the right temple.
The suspect, later identified as the victim’s husband, had locked the door and was quietly inside the house. Authorities forced entry and found him lying under a blanket on a bed in a bedroom on the third floor. He was arrested. During a more than three-hour search of the house, officers also found three 9 mm pistols, which were seized as evidence before the suspect was taken in for questioning and prosecution at Phetkasem Police Station.
Police Colonel Theerachai Dedkhad, Deputy Commander of Metropolitan Police Division 9, stated that investigations revealed the couple had been together for a long time and had three children: the eldest son aged six, and two younger children aged four years and one month.
Before the incident, at approximately 10:58 on the same day, it is believed the victim was driving the car with her husband. They reportedly had a dispute while in the vehicle, though the exact cause is unknown. When they arrived at their home, the husband used a gun to shoot his wife, then exited the car and entered the house, leaving the engine running. The engine was found to have turned off by itself around 19:00.
Police Colonel Theerachai added that at about 20:28, the husband came out of the house to open the driver's side door. Witnesses saw the body inside the car. The husband stayed inside the car for some time before getting out and returning to the house. Neighbors who saw the dead body in the car called the police to intervene.
Before the police forced entry to arrest the suspect, officers were concerned for the safety of the eldest son, who was believed to be with his father in the house. They intended to intervene to help but later learned the boy was still at school. Throughout the evening, teachers had tried to contact the boy’s parents to pick him up but were unsuccessful due to the family crisis.