Si Racha –
A young man has been arrested after he took an 11-year-old girl hostage by knife point to her neck in Si Racha this week.
The Nong Kham Police were notified of the incident in front of a local grocery in the Nong Kham sub-district in the afternoon of December 1st.
Law enforcement officers arrived at the scene to find the suspect with the girl in a pickup truck, pointing a knife at her neck. Police negotiated with the man for about five minutes in a tense, high-pressure conversation. The discussion eventually led to the suspect releasing the child after pleas from authorities to leave the girl out of the situation.
The man was identified by police as Phonthep Prompakdee, 27. He was taken to the Nong Kham Police Station for a drug test and further legal action. Phonthep was described as confused and erratic and was not able to speak with the press. According to Nong Kham police, the suspect did not provide a motive for taking the girl hostage and the parties were not known to each other.
The girl’s mother, whose name was withheld by request, told Nong Kham police, “My daughter was playing on a mobile phone in front of our grocery store while I was running a short errand only a few stores away nearby. The suspect, who I’ve never seen in my life and does not know me or my daughter, grabbed her and took her as a hostage. We have no idea why he did this.”
Nong Kham police stated they would attempt to sort out a motive from the suspect who remained in custody facing multiple legal charges, including kidnapping, as of press time.
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