A man shot his wife on the street near a supermarket in San Severo, in the Foggia area, and took his own life with the same weapon. The woman was taken to the hospital in desperate conditions .
The person responsible is Mario Furo, a 59-year-old retired prison police officer . He had been reported several times by his wife and was wearing an electronic bracelet ; he had been issued a restraining order.
As far as we know, the man waited for the woman at the exit of a supermarket on Via Salvemini, shooting her several times. He then left, getting into his car parked nearby, and took his own life.
There were numerous shots, according to what was reported by a witness, the owner of a market located behind the Eurospin in front of which the events occurred: «I don't know how many there were, but I heard a lot. I rushed outside. Then silence until the arrival of the carabinieri cars with sirens blaring» .
“It’s a tragedy, yet another of this magnitude,” the man added, joining the chorus of disbelief and anguish expressed by people who were nearby at the time of the shooting.
According to what the councilor for social policies of the municipality of San Severo, Bruno Savino, reported, «the woman had met with some social services workers at the beginning of October but had refused the possibility of moving to a safer place with her minor children» .
(Unioneonline/L)
