Two minors accused of the murder of the 16-year-old have been arrested. Grandma: “he was a golden boy”
June 26, 2024
They are awaiting validation of the arrest, expected in a few hours, i two minors stopped by the police For the murder of Thomas Christopher Luciani, a 16-year-old stabbed in Pescara Sunday evening. The two sixteen-year-olds under investigation, one the son of a lawyer and the other of a policeman, were transferred to different reception centres, one of the two outside the region.
The motive
They are accused, in competition, because they inflicted “a total of approximately 25 knife wounds” Thomas Christopher Luciani, hit in vital areas of the body, causing his death, is written in the provision of the chief prosecutor of the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila, David Mancini. The magistrate underlined the torture suffered by the boy and the cruelty of his killers. The motive It would be a small drug debt that the victim had had with one of the two arrested men for some time.
The story of a witness: “Thomas was gasping, they told him ‘shut up'”
Important for investigations the alarm launched by the ‘key witness’ of the assassination. “Thomas was gasping, they told him ‘shut up’”, revealed the boy, son of another carabiniere, “I was shocked, I wanted to stop them, but I didn’t know how. It seemed like they were no longer thinking about it.” The young man’s testimony was crucial in clarifying the alleged responsibility for the death of the sixteen-year-old, who was left dead in the bushes of a park near a railway underpass. The reports of the interrogations that reconstruct the events of last Sunday are full of detailsmany creepy. The group, made up of at least five minors, met in the afternoon at the central Pescara railway station and then went to the park, where they “Lured into the trap”, the investigators write, the boy who owed around 240 euros to one of his murderers. In a hidden area of the park, the 16-year-old was stabbed and two would have attacked the body with spitting and kicking even when the young man was on the ground lifeless. They would have too put out a cigarette butt on his face of the victim. Approximately 25 stab wounds would have been inflicted on the young man, writes the magistrate following the indications of an initial cadaveric examination carried out on Sunday night by the medical examiner Cristian D’Ovidio, who on Wednesday at 11 will receive the assignment for the autopsy on the victim’s body.
They are looking for the murder weapon, a knife
We are still looking for the murder weapona knife hacksaw, the pathologist indicated, probably a diving knife. The weapon would have been shown to the rest of the group already in the afternoon, when they found themselves at the railway yard. After the murder the knife would have ended up “behind the rocks”, explained the young witness, reporting that after the crime the group went to swim in the sea.
Thomas’ grandmother: “He was a golden boy”
“He was a golden boy”, said the Grandmother of the 16-year-old, resident in Rosciano (Pescara), who raised Thomas since he was three and a half years old, underlining that his nephew was not a drug addict. The victim had a difficult childhood. A Brazilian mother with a history of drug addiction, Thomas Luciani never met his father, explained the mayor of Rosciano, Simone Palozzo: “Olga, the grandmother, tried in every way to ensure a better future for the boy”. Arrested for theft last year, the young man had been entrusted to a rehabilitation community of Molise for testing and it goes from there ran awayas last October, to reach Pescara again, where this time however he found death.
