Suicide over boyfriend's alleged affairs

While a suicide note noting her boyfriend's alleged cheating was found, police have sought a summons for the boyfriend to question him and check for gunpowder residue.

After a report of homicide at 2.50am at Summerset Condominium in Soi Suan Phlu, police found the injured woman, with a gun wound in her left chest.

Jatulada Chandrangsi was later announced dead at BNH Hospital. Jatulada, 39, was the daughter of Adul Chandrangsi, vice-president of the Mass Media Photographers Association of Thailand.

Condominium security guards reportedly heard Jatulada having an argument with her 44-year-old boyfriend Jergen Grailer from her room on the 23rd floor before a gunshot was heard. The guards rushed to the room to send the injured woman to hospital.

The German, who owned a company selling closed-circuit camera systems in southern Thailand, had just returned from the South to Bangkok.

Lieutenant Sakdinan Duangyotha of Thung Mahamek precinct said Grailer told police that Jatulada shot herself. But police checked Grailer for gunpowder residue and summoned him to provide details about the incident. The results of the police tests should be known within a few days.

Thung Mahamek superintendant, Colonel Kittipan Julthakan, said the death was a suspected suicide because a suicide note was found, in which Jatulada lamented about her boyfriend's alleged affair with another woman, so she took her own life.

The note was typed via a computer but had some parts in her handwriting. It asked Jatulada's relatives to manage her property. The woman's relatives confirmed to police that the handwriting was Jatulada's.