Disagreements that explode, transforming yet another quarrel into tragedy. It happens in Verzino, a small town in Presila Crotone, where a man, Vito Avenoso, aged 64, took up his shotgun loaded with buckshot to fire at home against his son-in-law, Luigi Greco, a 43-year-old lumberjack, hitting him in the chest and killing him. instantly.
Then he also aimed the weapon at a nephew who was outside the apartment, 18-year-old Francesco, who was seriously injured in the head. Another grandson managed to escape the fury of his grandfather, who had also targeted him.
Theater of the tragedy a building in via Lenin where both the victim, on the ground floor, and the alleged murderer, on the first floor, lived. The eighteen-year-old immediately rescued, was transported directly to the hospital in Catanzaro by helicopter.
It all happened just before noon. Moments of terror: as soon as the news spread, the relatives of the victim arrived on the scene and attacked the killer's relatives. The carabinieri struggled not a little to calm the spirits, it had already come to blows.
Mayor Giuseppe Cozza also on the spot to stop the violent quarrel between the families: "It is a tragedy - he said visibly upset - that shook the whole community not used to such events. There are no words. The story involves normal families. dedicated to the work of lumberjack: such a thing was unthinkable ".
At the basis of the murder, according to what emerged from the first investigations of the carabinieri, there may have been disagreements arising from an alleged story of mistreatment in the family that Greco (the victim) would have exercised against his wife, daughter of Avenoso.
(Unioneonline / L)