Murder of Khuan Phokaeng
On Saturday, 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 obsessed with the video game Grand Theft Auto, 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." == Background == Khuan Phokaeng was, at the time of his murder, a 50-year-old taxi driver in Bangkok, though he was originally from Maha Sarakham province, in northeastern Thailand. Polwat Chinno was an 18-year-old secondary school student whose obsession with the video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) had become so severe that he spent hours inside internet cafés due to his parents being unable to afford the cost of buying GTA for him.