Drive-by shooters allegedly killed a chauffeur and wounded a high profile casino executive near Bangkok’s Lumpini Park in early November.
American Michael Gore, a former exec with Genting Group in Malaysia and Singapore, arrived in Bangkok with a colleague on Nov. 1 for meetings with a Malaysian business partner about a casino liner to be based in Mumbai.
Gore and his colleague were offered a limousine ride back to their hotel in a late-model BMW 7 series with tinted windows at around 9pm. As the car was stopped in traffic near Lumpini Park, a hail of gunfire killed the driver of the vehicle and hit Gore in the forearm, according to Macau Business.
A motorcycle allegedly then pulled up to the vehicle and pointed something into the limousine, but then drove away.
Police apparently said the shooting was a case of mistaken identity.
“I have not been in Thailand for a long time and am not currently doing business there,” Gore told Macau Business. “Few people knew I was going to Bangkok on this date.”
Gore was previously an executive at small casinos in Cambodia and a police detective in New Jersey in addition to working for Genting, a massive conglomerate with gambling interests in the UK, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
Michael Gore was in Bangkok for meetings.
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