Man shoots dead woman in shopping mall, kills himself
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A 50 year-old-man shot and killed a 44-year-old woman inside a shopping mall in Nonthaburi before he turned the gun on himself on Valentine’s Day. A 10-year-old girl was also injured by a stray bullet, police said.
The shooting occurred on the second floor of Central Plaza Ratanathibet shopping mall in Nonthaburi’s Mueang district shortly after the mall was open.
Pichakkhana Somsakul was shot at the back of her neck and her body and died inside the first aid room of the mall. Suchart Puapradit died of a gunshot wound at his right temple. A .38 revolver was found beside his body.
The girl, who was inside a coffee shop with her parents, was hit by a bullet at her chin and was rushed to the Phra Nungklao Hospital. She was declared safe.
Security officers told police that the man was seen quarreling with the woman in front of an escalator on the ground floor at 10 am after the mall was opened. Security officers intervened and the woman rode the escalator to the second floor.
But minutes later, three gunshots were heard on the second floor in front of a clothes store where the woman worked. The shop is on the opposite side from the coffee shop were the girl was injured.
The man’s mother told police that the two had been living together for years but they often quarreled recently.
