Thailand faculty taking pictures probe finds violent video games and US school-shooting searches

BANGKOK – Thai police investigating the taking pictures at a faculty exterior Bangkok are analyzing the net exercise of the 14-year-old suspect after discovering that he had looked for details about a faculty taking pictures within the US.

This comes as investigators work to ascertain a motive behind the deadliest mass taking pictures in Thailand since 2022. At least 5 folks had been killed at Debsirin Nonthaburi School earlier than the boy turned the weapon on himself.

Police additionally consider {the teenager} killed his grandparents at their dwelling in Nonthaburi province earlier than travelling to the varsity on the morning of Aug 7. Their our bodies had been discovered when officers and forensic groups entered the property.

Wattana Yichin, commander of Provincial Police Region 1, inspected the home as a part of the investigation.

The entrance door had been locked from the surface, police mentioned.

Investigators consider {the teenager} left the home after his grandparents’ deaths and travelled to the varsity, the place the taking pictures later occurred.

Police study pc and search historical past

Preliminary checks on {the teenager}’s pc discovered that he had performed video games with violent themes and looked for and studied details about a faculty taking pictures within the US.

The searches dated again to round July 30, mentioned the police.

Police haven’t established that the video games or search historical past brought on or motivated the shootings.

They mentioned the investigation remained centered on establishing the sequence of occasions and figuring out what, if any, components contributed to the shootings, together with whether or not {the teenager} had confronted any issues in school.

Information supplied by {the teenager}’s uncle indicated that he had lived together with his grandparents since childhood, spent appreciable time taking part in pc video games and customarily stored to himself.

The relative reported no identified historical past of disputes or apparent indicators of stress earlier than the incident.

The firearm concerned within the taking pictures was legally registered to {the teenager}’s grandfather, based on the police.

Thananyaporn, 60, the youthful sister of the boy’s late grandfather, mentioned {the teenager} usually lived together with his grandparents.

His dad and mom had separated, and his grandparents had raised him and liked him very a lot.

She mentioned he hardly ever went out. His grandfather would take him to highschool within the morning and decide him up within the night.

He didn’t have a gaggle of pals or exit like different youngsters usually did, however stayed at dwelling and performed pc video games.

Thananyaporn mentioned she didn’t consider household issues had been concerned as a result of the three of them had been very shut.

The grandmother was a instructor, whereas the grandfather was a former financial institution supervisor who at all times spoke gently to his grandson.

She described the boy as quiet and well mannered and mentioned she had by no means thought one thing like this may occur. THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK