'Killer Brit' Suspect Named

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Phuketwan has posted footage of a man who looks like Lee Aldhouse obtaining two knives from a 7-Eleven store shortly before Mr Longfellow was stabbed to death.

 

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Then outside the 7/11

 

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[hooper]

a result is a result 1-0.

[kamui]

I wonder why he hasn't been caught yet. :question:

[LizardKing]

Anyone can get "sucker punched", plus the Brit had knives, so hardly a fair fight.

He was jumped from behind and stabbed from the back...

[Flashermac]

BANGKOK (CBS/AP) Dashawn Longfellow, a former U.S. Marine, was in Thailand for vacation and to study Muay Thai, or Thai boxing - and that may have been what got him killed, according to Thai police.

 

A manhunt is now underway to find British kickboxer, Lee Aldhouse, who police say followed the [color:red]Purple Heart recipient[/color] back to his hotel and ambushed him outside his hotel room, stabbing him several times in the chest and ultimately killing him.

 

Witnesses say that hours earlier Aldhouse and Longfellow got into a barroom fight after the Briton tried to block the former Marine from getting to the restroom.

 

Aldhouse, who was reportedly known for getting drunk, picking fights and bragging about being invincible, had apparently met his match in Longfellow, who was winning the fight when other patrons separated the two brawlers, according to witnesses.

 

Longfellow left the bar with his Thai girlfriend shortly after the fight, but Aldhouse was allegedly not going to concede defeat that easily and followed the couple to their hotel. Longfellow dropped his girlfriend off and then walked to a nearby convenience store.

 

Aldhouse later ambushed Longfellow outside his hotel room, stabbing him twice in the chest as his terrified girlfriend looked on, according to the Phuket Gazette.

 

"At first it didn't look like [Aldhouse] had anything," the girlfriend, identified only as Oi, told the Gazette. "We didn't know he had a knife because his hands were in his pockets." She said a fistfight began between the American and the Brit and the latter pulled out a knife and stabbed Longfellow twice in the chest.

 

Oi said that her boyfriend rushed inside and shut the door to protect her from Aldhouse. Oi called the police and an ambulance, but Longfellow died before they got there.

 

Longfellow had served in the Marine Corps and was a machine gunner for the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, said Matt Gronbach, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who was in the same unit with Longfellow.

 

"Dashawn was a caring and loving person. One of the nicest guys you could ever be around. Great friend, brother and son. He was just a huge teddy bear that everyone loved," Gronbach said.

 

Longfellow's mother, Tammy, of Oklahoma City, told reporters that her son traveled to Thailand in an effort to gain more knowledge of a form of martial arts.

 

"He accomplished a lot," Tammy Longfellow said. "He mastered every test they gave him. He worked his hardest and he did the best he could. He was very competitive. He always wants to win, and that's what he did."

 

 

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[Central Scrutinizer]

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Chalong police have confirmed the identity of the prime suspect in the brutal stabbing death of American Muay Thai trainee Dashawn Longfellow in the early hours this morning.

 

Case Officer Anukul Nookate confirmed to the Gazette that British Muay Thai fighter Lee Aldhouse, 28, is being sought for arrest in the murder of Mr Longfellow at his room at the Ya Nui 2 resort near Ya Nui Beach.

 

Mr Longfellow's girlfriend, “Oiâ€Â, told the Gazette that he had come on his motorbike to pick her up from work at the Freedom Bar in Rawai at around 1am today.

 

When he arrived, he had a couple of beers while he waited for her to finish up work, which is usually around 2am, she said.

 

At some point, Mr Longfellow went to the restroom where he found the entrance to the toilet blocked by Mr Aldhouse and a fight ensued, Ms Oi said.

 

According to witnesses, Mr Longfellow got the best of his opponent in the brawl before it was broken up by bar patrons and staff.

 

Ms Oi said that after the fight, the American took her back to his room and left again shortly after to go to a 7-Eleven.

 

Mr Aldhouse – seeing Mr Longfellow enter and leave the Rawai 7-Eleven – went into the convenience store and obtained two knives and followed his victim home. Police neither confirmed nor denied eyewitness reports that the knives were stolen from the convenience store.

 

As Mr Longfellow returned home and opened the door to his room, Ms Oi saw the Brit approach her boyfriend from behind.

 

She said, “At first it didn't look like he [Aldhouse] had anything. We didn't know he had a knife because his hands were in his pocketsâ€Â. She said a fistfight began between the American and the Brit and the latter pulled out a knife and stabbed Mr Longfellow twice in the chest. ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7-11 sells knives?

[drogon]

Went to 4 different 7-11 in Phuket two months ago and never saw knives for sale....although I was looking for something else.

 

 

 

[ALHOLK]

I have been to a number of 7-11s in many places in Thailand and the same goes for Family Mart. I have never seen a knife for sale. Now nail clippers and scissors I have seen.

[Central Scrutinizer]

Same here. I've been in 7-11s all over the country for years. Never saw a knife for sale myself in a 7-11. Thought maybe I'd missed something and not been paying attention to what was for sale on the shelves. That's why I asked.

 

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[chuckwoww]

It's not clear but from that video it almost looks like he walked into the shop and put the knives on the counter. Clerk knocked them off. He picked them up and walked out.