Angered by civil debt enforcement against his well-known Bueng Chon restaurant in eastern Bangkok off the Bang Na-Trat highway, the owner yesterday shot and wounded a lawyer before hijacking a pickup truck and fleeing, police say.
Prakit took one shot in his right shoulder and is recovering.
Police expected that a court-approved arrest warrant for Praphan would be available tomorrow.
Accompanied by an aide and four Legal Execution Department officials, Prakit went to the restaurant to post a civil court order seeking Bt8 million Praphan failed to pay for the rent of the land on which his restaurant sits.
According to the victim and witnesses, Praphan parked his black pickup truck beside Prakit's and fired one shot at him. While trying to escape, Prakit lost his control of his truck, which plunged into a canal.
Praphan then allegedly fled on the Outer Ring Road, and hijacked the Vigo before fleeing on the Bang Na-Trat outbound lanes.