hit by a stray bullet. A 28-year-old man was arrested

He is 28 years old, he is Italian and it would have been him who pulled the trigger from a Fiat 500. The agents of the Rome Flying Squad, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, are proceeding with the arrest of a 28-year-old Italian man seriously suspected of having exploded yesterday, in of the Riserva Nuova, in the area of ​​the Prenestino Village, several gunshots, one of which seriously injured an 81-year-old woman, Caterina Ciurleo, who died this morning at the Tor Vergata polyclinic.

Caterina Ciurleo, hit by mistake

The victim found himself aboard a Smart car, driven by a friend of his who escaped unharmed. The two women, who had recently left the Unico shopping centre, found themselves at the center of a chase which then led to the shooting. One of the bullets – five shell casings found on the asphalt by the forensic team – ended up against the trunk of the car, embedding itself in the victim’s back. Ciurleo, originally from Anoia, a small municipality in the province of Reggio Calabria but resident in the capital for years, was in the passenger seat and the bullet hit her in the lung. Her condition immediately appeared very serious and her heart stopped beating this morning. The 81-year-old, originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, also underwent a very delicate surgery in which the bullet casing and part of her lung were removed. But despite the doctors’ efforts to save her, there was nothing they could do.

Shooting in Rome, the elderly woman shot by mistake on the street on Prenestina dies

The investigations

Meanwhile, police investigations continue, coordinated by the anti-mafia magistrates of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office, to trace the reasons for the shooting. From the reconstruction of the dynamics, aided by some testimonies as well as videos from the shopping centre’s video surveillance systems, the two cars – namely the Fiat 500 and a Golf – were chasing each other. The shots would have been fired from the first without any response. So much so that the shell casings found on the street all have the same caliber: 380.

The first reconstruction

The Smart in which Ciurleo was travelling, driven by a friend of hers from 1960, unfortunately found herself at the center of the shooting and despite the attempt by the woman who was driving to move to the right, a bullet hit her and lodged in the passenger’s back . That the woman had therefore been shot by mistake had already emerged a few hours after the shooting.

The pain of family members

Anger and dismay among the family and acquaintances of Caterina, killed while returning to her home in Torrenova after visiting a friend. Tonight, to express solidarity with her family, a demonstration was organized at the site of the tragedy. This was announced by the president of Municipality VI Nicola Franco. “Together with Don Antonio Coluccia we decided to give an immediate response to what happened – said Franco – We will be present in the form of a demonstration to reiterate the need to increase security measures for our territories”. For Franco, in his municipality there is a “need for resources and security”. «If necessary, even the army» he underlined.

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