A man was shot to dead and another injured Sunday morning
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A man was killed and another injured in a shooting on Ratchadapisek Road reportedly caused by illegal drug transaction on Sunday morning.
Wirat Diloksi, 37, was killed and Wisan Suriwong, also 37, wounded when a gunman on a motorcycle fired at their pickup truck near Ratchadaphisek Soi 19.
The incident took place Sunday morning when Wisan drove the pickup truck with Wirat as a passenger after they left a local nightclub.
An initial investigation found that a group of six female and five male nightclub goers, including Wirat, left a nightclub in two vehicles.
When the pickup truck carrying Wirat and Wisan was passing the crime scene, a gunman on motorcycle without a licence plate which followed them reportedly from the nightclub shot at the victims around four times before fleeing.
Meanwhile, the cause of the shooting was presumed to be related to an illegal drug transaction in the nightclub. Police said that the victim may have asked a drug-selling syndicate to sell him the illegal drug and was turned down. The drug deal led to brawl at the nightclub.
Police officers are speeding up checking of closed-circuit television cameras and gathering related evidence in order to hunt down the gunman.
