Porntip: Troop killed in Don Muang clash not killed by friendly fire

[Mekong]

Doctor Porntip Rojanasunan, the director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, announced Tuesday that a troop killed during a clash between troops and protesters on April 28 was not killed by a friendly fire.

 

Porntip said the ballistic study found that Pvt Narongrit Sala was shot by someone from a building under construction near a petrol station.

 

The shooter was not on the Don Muang Tollway, Porntip said.

 

The petrol station was the are where a foreign media captured a man in black with gun.

 

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[WorldFun]

saw the footage yesterday on tv & fits well with all the other 'black' incidents recently

[Flashermac]

I'd never thought the "friendly fire" explanation fit the wound at all. Shots fired into the air do not strike someone in the side of the head. It was clearly a head shot meant to kill, just as in the other "ninja" killings. The soldier apparently was just an ordinary Somchai in uniform, so he was either targeted accidentally (shot meant for someone else) or the killing was meant to cause further violence. The gunmen are clearly professionals, military trained without doubt.

 

 

 

[LizardKing]

And shots fired in the air do not bust open an adult's skull. The math just does not work (mass plus terminal velocity versus the strength of the human skull).

[Boo Radley]

There seems to be a video of the shooting here (the top video on the page).

You can see a puff of smoke on the right of the screen then the soldier falls off the bike to the left.

[Wallenda]

Looking at this video, it seems bizarre that anyone would suggest this was friendly fire. I mean, it's on live tv... the cloud of smoke is obvious... all the cops on motorcycles then get off their motorcycles and go chase into the direction from where the shot came. Nobody who was there thought for a moment that it was friendly fire.

 

When the news story came out they even cited 'foreign media witnesses' who claimed it was friendly fire.

 

WTF.

 

Nobody suggested it was the redshirts or blackshirts who did this, not the police, the army, not any news source and not even the government.

 

What the F is up with that.

[WorldFun]

maybe with too clear evidence the face loos for involved parties caught red handed would be too much to bear in an already way too hot conflict - so the trial will be announced once the reds has dispersed?

[Wallenda]

Here's an idea: the guy who shoots somebody in the head gets to worry about his own face before shooting somebody in the head.

 

Oops, forgot, this is Thailand. The guy who shoots doesn't have to worry about anything. Only everyone else does.

 

 

[WorldFun]

sad, but true in most cases apparently - like how many *real* killers get caught % wise in LOS - 1 digit?

[drogon]

Smoke? Except if you are using an old weapon at least 19th century then there is no 'smoke' when a shot is fired -> all modern weapons use smokeless powder (except if you modify one to fire a 19th or older century's round)...