An engineering student was killed by multiple gunshots just 300 metres from a police station in Bangkok Noi district of Bangkok on Sunday night.
The attack occurred near the entrance to Soi Charan Sanitwong 30/1 around 10.35pm.
Police said the murdered man was Satthawat Robroo, 23, who had recently completed his first year as an electrical engineering student at Pathumwan Institute of Technology.
He was hit by six bullets.
The victim's motorcycle lay on the road nearby, along with a crash helmet. There was a bullet hole in the bike.
Police said the slain student was travelling on his motorcycle. Two men on another motorcycle overtook him and the pillion rider fired several shots.
The victim fell to the ground. The killers returned and fired more shots at him before fleeing along Charan Sanitwong Road.
The police investigation was continuing.