Suspected killer of five arrested in Sa Kaew
Sa Kaew police Monday arrested Veera Wanjungreed, 26, who shot dead a male nurse and four karaoke bar workers on Thursday, after officials surrounding a village in Tambon Tha Kwian in Wattana Nakhon district and engaged in a brief gunfight.
As the 100strong police team was hunting from Veera, who was lately spotted in tambon, police at 00.30am yesterday arrested Veera at a relative’s house in Ban Thap Chang after the suspect had a five-minute gunfight with police. Veera was now detained at Khao Chakan police station. Police also arrested the homeowner and Veera’s relative Somwang Wangjungreed along with 123 Yaba tablets on Sunday, the case of which would be proceed at Wattana Nakhon police station.
Police surrounded Somwang’s house in which Veera was hiding since Sunday evening following the brief gunfight, until around midnight Veera called police on the phone saying he wanted to surrender for fear of being killed. As the condition to surrender, Veera asked police to get his other girlfriend Kanchana Khumalee in Wattana Nakhon district to be present during the surrender. Kanchana arrived and called Veera to remove his clothes and walk out of the house with hands up.
The Nation
