Arrested for conspiracy to murder Luciano Valvo, 55, alleged accomplice of Salvatore La Motta , the man who yesterday shot and killed two women and then took his own life in Riposto , in the province of Catania.
The investigations by the Catania prosecutor's office are still underway to define the complete reconstruction of the facts, the motive for the murders and the links between the people involved. The first woman to be killed is Melina Marino, 48 , murdered with a gunshot to the face on the Pantano seafront, in her own car, a Suzuki "Ignis", parked along the road.
The killer, after getting out of the car driven by Valvo, reached the woman who was sitting on the driver's side, opened the passenger side door and opened fire.
After about an hour, in a different area of the same town, in the central Via Roma, the fifty-year-old Santa Castorina was instead killed. After getting out of her car, parked on the sidewalk, she was hit by two gunshots from fire again in the face.
After the crimes La Motta - sentenced to life imprisonment for criminal association of the mafia type and the murders of Campo Leonardo and Torre Cosimo, detained in semi-liberty in the Augusta prison and at that time on bonus leave - presented himself in the barracks declaring that he wanted to give himself up, but he was holding a 38-caliber revolver.
The military, reconstructs the note from the Catania prosecutor's office, "holding him at gunpoint for security reasons, tried to convince him to leave the weapon on the ground and not to make any kind of senseless gesture". However, the man, «who had raised his arms in surrender, still holding the weapon firmly in his hand, suddenly turned the drum pistol, a "Smith & Wesson", against himself, shooting himself in the temple» .
