What the records say
- When
- 2008
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 13.75° N, 100.50° E
- Description
- 2008 murder in Bangkok, Thailand
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its description names, Bangkok.
Murder of Khuan Phokaeng
2008 murder in Bangkok, Thailand
On 2 August 2008, 50-year-old taxi driver Khuan Phokaeng, was murdered in Bangkok, Thailand, by 18-year-old Polwat Chinno, a secondary school student who was addicted to playing the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, claiming during interrogation that he wanted to know if "pulling off a carjacking was as easy in real life as it was in the video game." The case prompted a nationwide ban on the sale of Grand Theft Auto ga…
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