Breakthrough in the investigation into the murder of Caterina Ciurleo, the 81-year-old killed by mistake by a gunshot while she was in a car with a friend on the outskirts of Rome on May 24th.
The policemen of the Flying Squad of the Rome Police Headquarters, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Capitoline Prosecutor's Office, arrested two people. This is a twenty-four year old of Romanian origins and a twenty-three year old of Peruvian origins.
According to investigators, the two arrested were aboard the car, a red Fiat 500, from which the shots were fired. The moments of the murder were also immortalized by a video from the surveillance cameras in which the red car can be seen arriving, pulling alongside the woman's blue smart car and then running away.
On the afternoon of May 23rd, the old woman was in the car with a friend in via Don Primo Mazzolari, in the Ponte di Nona area, on the outskirts of Rome when she was hit by a 9 caliber bullet fired by the occupants of the red 500 is next to the car in which the victim was travelling, traveling along a stretch of the roadway against traffic. Due to her injuries, the woman later died in hospital.
The Flying Squad investigators immediately reconstructed that the woman was not the real target of the ambush: the shots (at least 5 9mm calibers) had been fired in the direction of another car which was in the same lane as that of the victim. Thanks also to the acquisition and analysis of several hours of images recorded by the video surveillance systems in the area, it was possible to gather serious clues regarding those arrested. In the afternoon the officers carried out the order for the application of precautionary custody in prison.
(Unioneonline/D)