The State Police has proceeded to arrest a 53-year-old man believed to be responsible for the attempted murder occurred near a fish shop in Torricella Monacizzo location.
Yesterday morning, the Manduria Police Station received a report that a man with a bullet in his right forearm had arrived at the local hospital’s Emergency Room, identified as a 31-year-old Taranto man with a criminal record for drug-related crimes. According to the report, the victim was reportedly hit by a gunshot while he was in the countryside between Lizzano and Pulsano. The subject’s story did not seem convincing to the investigators, so much so that, upon resignation, he was reported to the Judicial Authority because he was considered presumed responsible for the crime of aiding and abetting. The investigative activity started by the Taranto Flying Squad and the police officers of the Police Station allowed them to reconstruct the probable dynamics of the facts.
The car was hidden inside an agricultural land located in Lizzano and hit by several gunshots. The video surveillance system reported that a subject fired several gunshots in the direction of the 31-year-old, wounding him. The man, a 53-year-old with a criminal record for mafia-style criminal association, property crimes, crimes against the person and drug-related crimes, when approached by investigators, indicated the place where he had hidden the gun, which had its serial number erased and, after having forwarded the documents to the competent Judicial Authority, was arrested because he was considered presumed responsible for the crimes of attempted murder, illegal possession of a clandestine weapon in a public place, illegal possession of a clandestine firearmfiring gunshots in a public place and receiving stolen goods. He was finally taken to the Taranto District Prison. The motives for the act are still unknown.
