Four gunshots and overlapping, partly incomprehensible voices are captured in audio recorded by a surveillance camera in an apartment building on Via Carlo Pisacane, about 30 meters from where 42-year-old personal trainer Annibale "Dino" Carta was killed Monday evening near his home on Via Caracciolo, Foggia, while walking his dog. The audio was broadcast during the program "Ore 14," airing on Raidue. The four gunshots were recorded at 9:58 PM. This time is perfectly consistent with the moments of the crime.
Before the shots, fragments of dialogue are heard, with men and a woman talking about a dog, probably unrelated to the murder. Then another male voice says, "What are you doing? Are you shooting me?", followed by the sound of four consecutive shots. Immediately afterward, another male voice says, "I'll never bother you again. I swear, I swear."
The motive remains a mystery, as does the killer, who used a small-caliber pistol, dropping the magazine along the way, which investigators found on the ground. He fired from within five feet of the victim, landing all four fatal shots. The Carabinieri investigating the incident, coordinated by the Foggia prosecutor's office, have interviewed the victim's family, neighbors, and friends, but at this time there is no evidence to establish a motive. Criminal activity appears to have been ruled out, and so the focus is on Carta's private life and work. Married and the father of two daughters, the personal trainer was well-connected and well-liked in society, and also did volunteer work. Friends and acquaintances describe him as a decent man, a hard worker, devoted to his family, well-known in the sports world (he worked at a well-known gym in the city), with a following on social media and intense volunteer work in the parish.
The magazine recovered at the murder scene will be subjected to ballistic analysis, but there are still many questions investigators must answer, and many are asking . "Dino was very active in the parish for several years," says parish priest Don Giulio of San Francesco Saverio, the church Dino attended. " He served Mass as an altar boy and was always available and attentive to everything. He was loved and respected, along with his wife Sara and his daughters."
"Every murder, every criminal act is an open wound in the body of our city. We express our full confidence in the investigators. Our condolences go to the family, and the support of our administration and the entire city," Mayor Maria Aida Episcopo commented.
(Unioneonline/D)