A sergeant major driving a pickup truck cut off a car, then drew a gun and shot his wife on the road, leaving her critically injured. The motive is believed to be jealousy over her attending an ordination ceremony with another man.
At 13:00 on 11 Apr 2026 GMT+7, Lieutenant Colonel Supapop Chawinwarakul, Deputy Chief Investigator at Dong Pak Kham Police Station, Phichit province, received a report of a shooting. A pickup truck cut off a car, then the driver got out and blocked the road before pointing a handgun at the car carrying a man and a woman, with someone injured inside. The incident occurred on the Phichit-Dong Klang road, Village No. 5, Dong Klang Subdistrict, Mueang District, Phichit. The car involved took the injured person to Chai Arun Medical Hospital for treatment.
Lieutenant Colonel Supapop Chawinwarakul, the investigating officer at Dong Pak Kham Police Station, traveled to question the injured person, who was unable to give a statement due to undergoing treatment and awaiting surgery. The injured was shot with a 9mm handgun in the side while in a sedan registered in Phitsanulok, suffering critical injuries.
He then questioned Mr. Kittipipat, 54, from Phichit, the injured woman's new boyfriend. It was initially established that the injured woman is Ms. Kritkaew from Phaisali District, Nakhon Sawan province, who had been dating him for just over a month. On this day, she had come to meet him to attend an ordination ceremony at Dong Klang Temple in Mueang Phichit.
After the ceremony, while driving her back, Mr. Kittipipat was driving with Ms. Kritkaew sitting in the front passenger seat. When leaving the temple near the incident site on Phichit-Dong Klang road opposite the temple gate, a pickup truck with scratched-off license plates followed and cut in front. The driver got out and approached their car holding a gun. Mr. Kittipipat asked his girlfriend who was blocking the car, and she said it was her husband.
The man then fired two shots at the rear driver-side door—one bullet struck Ms. Kritkaew's side and the other hit the back seat. Startled, Mr. Kittipipat immediately drove her to the hospital.
After the shooting, the sergeant major fled. It is suspected that his wife had been involved with another man and arranged to attend the ordination ceremony together. The sergeant major likely grew suspicious, tracked them, and, upon witnessing the scene, lost his temper and committed the shooting.
Police will continue searching for Sergeant Major Attasit Pho Phan to bring him to justice. They will also investigate the cause of the shooting further but must wait until the injured person recovers sufficiently from surgery before proceeding.