Final 2 suspects in Kanchanaburi gang killing caught

Final 2 suspects in Kanchanaburi gang killing caught

Nitinai Watcharanuthat, 24, (left) and Chai-anuwat Rodpai, 23, were arrested in Kanchanaburi on Monday allegedly for murdering a teenage man early December. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen)
Nitinai Watcharanuthat, 24, (left) and Chai-anuwat Rodpai, 23, were arrested in Kanchanaburi on Monday allegedly for murdering a teenage man early December. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen)

The last two suspects in the murder of a teenager in Kanchanaburi early this month were captured hiding in a plantation on Monday.

Police found the exhausted suspects Chai-anuwat Rodpai, 23, and Nitinai Watcharanuthat, 24, hiding in a sugarcane plantation close to a golf course in Tha Muang district of Kanchanaburi province at about 6am.

They were among six youths aged 18-24 caught by surveillance cameras beating to death Kritsada On-norm, 19, beside Saeng Chuto Road in Muang Kanchanaburi district on the night of Dec 6.

Mr Chai-anuwat was seen holding a shotgun and Mr Nitinai hitting the teenager with a cement doll.

The arrest of the two ended an intense police manhunt for suspects in the killing.

The six suspects, some of whom had surrendered to police, were reportedly members of a gang called Chukkadon. They ate at the same restaurant with other young men claimed to be members of a rival gang named Taopoon.

Earlier turning himself in, Pongwit Thepkaweera, the 22-year-old leader of the Chukkadon gang, told police they assaulted Kritsada and another man, who was injured, only because both were Taopoon members and not because they had a personal grudge.

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