US Navy Yard shooter not on Thai blacklist

BANGKOK, September 19 (TNA) - Thailand's Immigration Bureau has confirmed that a US Navy Yard shooter was not on Thailand's immigration blacklist although he entered the Kingdom twice earlier. Immigration Bureau Commissioner Police Lieutenant General Panu Keudlappol told journalists of the travel record of the former US Navy reservist, Aron Alexis, who killed 12 people in a shooting spree at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. last Monday morning. Police Lieutenant General Panu said that the 34-year-old man arrived in Thailand for the first time, through the Suvarnabhumi International Airport, on March 28, 2012 and was permitted to stay in the country for 30 days. According to the immigration bureau chief, the killer then left Thailand through a checkpoint in the eastern Sa Kaeo province on April 28, 2012 but re-entering the Kingdom on the same day for another 12-day stay, before departing the country from the Suvarnabhumi Airport on May 9, 2012. It was also reported that Alexis, who was killed by US security forces at the shooting scene, used to work and live with a Thai friend, who is the owner of a Thai restaurant in Texas, in 2011. (TNA)