A man was found shot dead outside his home in Muang district of this southern province early Sunday morning, after allegedly killing his girlfriend on Friday.
Police said 33-year-old Kittipat Mudman’s body was found lying on the road surface, with both legs resting on one side of his fallen motorcycle, in front of house 321/55 on Charoensuk 2 Road in tambon Tha Wang.
He had a gunshot wound to his right temple. A 9mm pistol and a spent shell were found beside him. Police said it was the same gun used to kill his girlfriend inside the same single-storey concrete house on Friday.
Police also said Kittipat was named in a court arrest warrant on a charge of shooting dead Sudaporn Jitra, a 34-year-old native of Trang province. The woman was shot three times.
Kittipat and Sudaporn had lived together in the rented house, along with Kittipat’s mother.
On Friday the mother told police that she heard three gunshots in the couple’s bedroom. Then her son fled the house on a motorcycle. She looked and saw Sudaporn was dead, apparently shot while using her mobile phone.
Muang Nakhon Si Thammarat police chief Pol Col Kittichai Krainara said on Friday that Kittipat had been jealous of his girlfriend and the couple had argued frequently.
Investigators suspected he had caught her talking to another man on her phone, he said.