Alleged shooter says he had approached victim for moneypublished at 09:21 BST
09:21 BST
Thanyarat Doksone
Producer, BBC News Bangkok
We have more lines from Chalong’s press conference earlier at the police station, where he sought to explain his motive for shooting Thongchai.
“I can’t believe I’m in this position, sitting here. Throughout my life, I had never to come to a police station,” Chalong said.
“Today I went to talk to my friend up in [his office]. We spoke and he didn’t listen to me.”
Chalong said he had helped when Thongchai was in the real estate business and didn’t have enough money. He also told reporters he had been sick since 2011 and was receiving treatment for polycythemia, a blood disorder related to the overproduction of red blood cells.
He spent so much on treatment that he had to approach Thongchai for financial help, Chalong said.
As he tells it, things escalated from there.
“He then pushed me, saying ‘I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to talk’,” Chalong recounted. “Then he started walking. Then I followed him to his car.”