A policeman has been sacked from the force after losing a drunken fist fight with a French tourist and then shooting him dead in a condominium building on Soi Sukhumvit 13, Bangkok, on Wednesday morning.
The gunman was identified as Pol Sen Sgt Maj Kantapong Huadsri of Bangkok's Lumpini police station.
The tourist was killed on the first floor of the Trendy Office & Plaza building early on Wednesday morning. He was identified as Malik Jamel, 35. Earlier, both men had been seen at the Lucky Shot Food and Sport restaurant on Soi Sukhumvit 11/1, where they had got into a drunken brawl.
Witnesses said the policeman was on the losing end of the fist fight and later followed Jamel back to the condominium, where the tourist was staying, and shot him dead on the first floor.
Media reported that a waiter who accompanied the policeman gave him a gun. The Frenchman was shot twice, in the head and chest.
The shooter fled the scene, but later surrendered and was being interrogated, pending charges being laid. Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, immigration police commissioner, confirmed that both men were drunk. Pol Sen Sgt Maj Kantapong had confessed to the crime, he said.
The commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 5 said the man had been sacked from the police force.
