Police were told that around 10 pm, Wuttisak Pwongsombat, 19, from Nakorn Sawan was shot while driving his motorbike home from a restaurant.
After being shot he crashed his motorbike, then ran off into a nearby banana plantation.
His passenger, Pongsak Sukjam, 44, ran off in the other direction to get help from relatives. Together they found Wuttisak and took him to Vachira Phuket Hospital, but he died there in the emergency room.
Pongsak told officers that he and Wuttisak had jobs on a construction site for a housing development not far from the incident.
Last evening they went to watch the Thailand-Philippines football match on the TV at a local restaurant about two kilometres from their home.
On the way back two men on another bike pulled up alongside them. One of the men pulled a gun from his waistband and shot Wuttisak in the chest.
Police believe the shooting may have been the result either of “an old rivalry” or of a new one sparked in the restaurant while the match was on. Forensics officers found three bullet holes in a nearby wall.