On a rather notorious Monday morning on Ranong 2 Road in Dusit district, a technical college student found himself fatally wounded, all reportedly over a heated dispute between two gangs. The accused, a 22-year-old man, revealed to the police that his aggressive action of shooting down the student was a direct repercussion of an attack on one of his gang members by the victim. He further went on to state that their judgments were clouded as they had consumed drinks laced with Kratom prior to the event.
The Superintendent at Dusit Police Station, Pol Col Traipop Paetrat, announced that two main suspects in the case were taken into custody on Tuesday. These were found to be Akarapol Sirimekanon, aged 22, and an 18-year-old male going by the name of Thanakorn. These individuals are suspected to be behind the tragic end of the 16-year-old technical college student, Pongpeera.
Pongpeera, who wore his school uniform that fateful day, was heading to Dusit Technical College, riding pillion on a friend’s motorcycle when the two suspects and their accomplices, who had claimed to have pre-consumed Kratom-laced drinks, decided to stir the pot. As it was recounted to the police, the pair, along with their gang, approached Pongpeera riding on motorcycles.
Sirimekanon, a deliveryman who formerly attended school in the Thon Buri area, described the incidence as an escalation of a fiery argument which led Pongpeera to allegedly stab Thanakorn, who was accompanying him on the back seat of another motorcycle. In retaliation, Sirimekanon admits he shot him.
Notably, Thanakorn previously attended a technical college in the Charansanitwong region. Dishearteningly, these young lives are now tangled in a hazardous narrative that features a heady mixture of gang violence and substance abuse, particularly flagrant with the consumption of kratom drinks. This incident also leads us to ponder upon recent governmental actions concerning such substances. For instance, the recent passing into law of the Kratom bill, which seeks to caution minors against substance abuse.
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