On a Friday morning in Nonthaburi province, a Grade 8 student carried his grandfather's handgun into a school and opened fire, leaving eight dead — five teachers, his own grandparents, and himself — and twenty-two others wounded. The violence appears to have begun at home, before the school ever came into view, tracing a path of destruction that ended only when the shooter turned the weapon on himself. Authorities point tentatively toward academic stress as a motive, though the deeper question — what fractures inside a young person until violence becomes imaginable — remains, as it always does
Thailand school shooting kills eight, including five teachers and suspect's grandparents
Eight killed including five teachers and the teenage shooter; 22 injured with nine seriously hurt; two grandparents shot at home; students traumatized and evacuated.