A teen from the northern outskirts of Bangkok is suspected of killing his parents in bed and then himself Saturday, police said.
Police said the 16-year-old, whose name was withheld, might have shot his parents as they slept at home in the Thanyaburi district of Pathum Thani after being reprimanded for poor grades and playing video games.
Police believe the parents were sleeping on the home’s second floor when their younger son took a Glock pistol belonging to his father, a government official, and shot both parents in the head at about 3am, Pratunam-Chulalongkorn police chief Col. Trakook Kiawpraserty said yesterday.
The boy’s body was lying near the foot of the bed with a bullet wound to the head, Trakoon said.
His 19-year-old brother, who said his younger brother typically slept with his parents, said he discounted the sound of gunfire during the night and went to his university in the morning, as usual. He told police it wasn’t until he came home in the afternoon that he found the rest of his family dead inside. He said his brother was under pressure and unhappy about criticism from his parents.
Police investigators are examining the bodies to establish what happened, Bangkok Post reported.
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