AdvertisementWorldAsiaMass shooting ‘They loved the boy a lot’: Thai school shooter farewelled alongside the grandparents he murdered Harry Jiaravongtrakul Zach Hope and August 10, 2026 — 1:43pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. The two on the higher level hold the bodies of Somchit and Pornthip, a retired husband and wife murdered inside their home before dawn on Friday. “We wanted to have the funeral together because the grandparents, they loved the boy a lot,” explains Somchai Chiagkongco, the boy’s other grandfather, on his mother’s side. Retired husband and wife Somchit and Pornthip were murdered at home by their grandson on Friday, before he moved on to his high school. We would have been happy for him to live with us ... [but] he loved his grandfather [Somchit] a lot.