TEEN KILLER ON LOOSE; TIMOROUS ROBBER; KARAOKE IN A DITCH

Police in Pathum Thani are looking for an armed vagrant who fatally shot a teenager in the head for looking at him too long.

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Armed with a warrant, 20 armed Khu Khot police were late last week hunting for Spy Kaewsom, 23, accused of killing a teenage girl near a pork grill restaurant for no greater sin than peering at him.

Victim Wanwisa "Tangmo" Sumaphorn, 17, who is short-sighted, was attacked moments after leaving the eatery with a group of five friends on April 20.

When she and her friends walked in for a meal, they saw the vagrant sitting with his own group of friends. The two sides exchanged looks, but said nothing to each other, reports said.

After their meal, CCTV vision shows the group departing the eatery, near Nana Charoen market in Lam Luk Ka district, on two motorcycles, and the assailant following alone on his own motorcycle shortly after. Tangmo was riding at the rear of the second bike when she was shot at about 8.45pm near the Lam Sam Kaeo municipality office.

Witnesses say the attacker fired his weapon four times, the last shot entering Tangmo's forehead. Her stunned friends took her to hospital, where she died the next morning.

The assailant circled back to check on his handiwork before fleeing. Spy told a friend that he shot her because she stared at him, news reports say.

The suspect — slim, about 175 cm tall, with shoulder-length hair and tattoos on both legs — was with a group of four or five friends aged in their 20s, including a young man who had found him sleeping rough and opened his home to him.

The CCTV shows the shooter riding his motorcycle back the way he came, heading towards a nearby village, which connects to the Thanyaburi canal.

CCTV vision close to Wat Chanthasuk later captures the suspect riding another motorcycle fleeing towards Future Park Rangsit. Police believe he left the motorcycle used in the crime elsewhere and took another motorcycle to make his escape.

Jutharat Sumaphorn, 36, Tangmo's mother, said her daughter had gone to eat a pork grill with her boyfriend and four friends.