A 17-year-old student has been arrested for the shooting in Don Muang last week that left a male student and a middle-aged woman dead.
“I’m so deeply sorry for what I did and accept the mistake,” the unnamed Don Muang Technical School student said at a police press conference, during which he wore a baclava and sunglasses during to hide his identity. Bangkok Metropolitan Police arrested the boy in Ayutthaya’s Wang Noi district, the Nation reported.
Police said they found a gun, bullets, and the black jacket he wore on the day of the shooting.
The teenager reportedly admitted that he fired into the Rangsit – Victory Monument bus because he saw enemy students of the rival Thaivichitsilp Art School riding it, and that they had pulled out knives. The gunshots killed one of the Thaivichitsilp students and a 48-year-old woman and wounded two others.
He took a taxi to escape.
“I also want to tell my school-mates and the other school not to follow my example because your parents will regret it. You should study hard rather than do wrong things,” he said.
