Perugia, he trains as a sniper in his home yard. And out of spite he shoots the neighbor’s puppy

PERUGIA – It’s a morning like many others. The silence of the condominium, at a time when many are working, is usual. When suddenly between…

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PERUGIA – It’s a morning like many others. The silence of the condominium, at a time when many are working, is usual. When suddenly the echo of gunshots rings out among the houses. Impossible to be wrong. Dry barrels that even those who have never shot recognize. Including the man who, intimidated but curious, cautiously overlooks the condominium square. He is walking around with his little dog, a puppy just a few months old, and is amazed when he understands the origin of those shots. In the common area there is a neighbor who trains with a compressed air rifle: eye fixed on the sight and finger on the trigger. Complete with a silhouette placed a few meters away to shoot at. In practice, the man finds himself with a mobile shooting range under his house. Enough to ask the neighbor for explanations on that particular use of the condominium spaces. Tempers soon flare up and “what the heck are you doing” becomes the fuse for the novice sniper to change his target: no longer the fixed shape intended for training but a mobile and above all defenseless target. The neighbor shoots the dog directly. The puppy yelps and is injured, amidst the screams of its owner. Once the condition of his puppy, hit but not in danger of life, was ascertained, he let a few hours pass and called 112, with the police who, once they had reconstructed the incident, reported the condominium shooter.
Here’s what happened the other day among the buildings on Strada Tiberina, in the Ponte Felcino area. Where the puppy was certainly the one who got the worst of it, injured through no fault of his own and just out of spite, but now the man with the rifle has ended up in front of the man with the dog in trouble. This is a 66-year-old who, upon the arrival of the police and after the necessary checks and investigations, turned out to be the neighbor with a passion for shooting, forced to hand over his compressed air rifle to the officers, which was seized together with all his ammunition. But not only. Because the 66-year-old was reported for injuries and acts of cruelty to animals, as well as for causing an alarm and prohibiting shooting in an inhabited place. The puppy escaped with a lot of fear and an injury, but the neighbor certainly didn’t make a new four-legged friend.
And this on Tiberina street is only the latest of the episodes in which, in the Perugino area, defenseless animals ended up victims of trigger-happy neighbors. Only last October, this is how Ettore died, a cat killed by his neighbor because it was seen walking on the fresh concrete on his property. A death for which a 73-year-old from Gualdo Tadino ended up on trial, accused of killing his neighbours’ big gray cat by literally being pierced by pellets from a hunting rifle. He explained to the investigators his anger over that freshly laid casting, with the prosecutor Giampaolo Mocetti who at the time presented a request for immediate judgement. A year ago, however, in via San Girolamo, at the entrance to Perugia, a man killed with a hunting weapon the kitten that he had trespassed and ended up in his garden. With the shots of that 12 gauge exploded between the houses, with the risk of hitting passers-by or children. The dull sound of those shots frightened the residents of the area, so much so that within a few minutes two patrols from the flying squad arrived on the scene, all convinced that it was an attack or a murder. Until the discovery of that small corpse in the garden, guilty of having only walked following his cat instinct.

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