Three days after the murder of Christopher Thomas Luciani, the 17-year-old from Rosciano killed on Sunday afternoon with 25 stab wounds in a park in the center of Pescara, details continue to emerge about what happened. The arrest warrant for the two sixteen-year-olds held responsible, containing the transcripts of the interrogations of the minors involved, brings to light new details about the crime. The stab wounds were inflicted by both: fifteen by one, ten by the other. The dying victim, who was also spat upon, had a cigarette put out on his face. And while he was dying he was told to shut up. The task of carrying out the autopsy will be given to the coroner today.
Witness: we didn’t think about calling for help
“We didn’t think about calling anyone, neither the police nor the ambulance.” It is one of the passages of the testimony of a boy very close to one of the two 16-year-olds arrested, who on Sunday afternoon was in the Baden Powell park in Pescara during the moments in which Christopher Thomas Luciani was killed. A testimony that confirms how the small group of young people, despite knowing what had happened, left the park, while Thomas’ body was lying in the undergrowth, to go to the seaside “in peace”. In his statements, the young man underlined that, after the events, when the key witness “came back, he told us that the boy was dead”. Then the two 16-year-olds now under arrest emerged from the vegetation. At that point, he added, “we went to the seaside in peace”. “At the seaside – he said – they told a summary of what happened. I know they were stabbed”. The boy also underlined that one of the two young people arrested “had a gun. He showed it to me after everything was over. He had it in his pocket. I don’t know how he had it. He told me it was unloaded, without shots”. Another of the very young people involved, in his testimony, said he was convinced that the two boys now under arrest “had organized themselves for this thing, to meet this boy”. The key witness, i.e. the young man who, having returned home on Sunday evening, discovered what had happened, among other things said he was “sure” that Thomas “was dead, there were many stab wounds in front of me. For example, he had had a stab wound to the abdomen, a stab wound to the leg, where the arteries are.”
The motive
The sixteen pages of the provision reconstruct the last moments of Thomas’ life. One of the two murderers, we read, “said that for him it had become a question of respect”. And so: according to the reconstruction, all the kids met at the Pescara station and from there they went to Baden Powell park. One of the two suspects already had the knife. And when the investigators asked why one of the two, despite having no credit towards the victim and not even knowing her, took the weapon and also launched blows on Thomas on the ground, the answer was “because they are friends “. From the reports it emerges that the ‘creditor’ was a small-time drug dealer, as was the victim, killed for a debt of 250 euros. The two, again according to the boy’s story, would have told their friends about the stabbings, it is not known whether to brag. Now the two also risk premeditation: because the knife was already in the backpack and was shown to the other kids already at the station, together with a change of clothes that will be used after the murder. And to this we add the other suspect who was seen with a small gun in his hand and the attempts of one of the two to intimidate the other kids: “while we were walking I think he said that this had to stay between the five of us”.
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The witness
“I was astounded, I wanted to stop them but I didn’t know how – stated the young man who triggered the alarm – It seemed like they were out of their minds”. And he added: “Despite what happened, we went to the seaside to swim.” On the beach one of the two alleged murderers “discarded the knife, which he had wrapped in a blood-stained sock, leaving it behind the rocks”. The two 16-year-olds “in competition with each other”, writes the Prosecutor’s Office at the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila, killed Christopher Thomas Luciani “with 25 stab wounds”, “inflicting torture and operating with cruelty, by kicking and spitting while he was lying on the ground lifeless “. “What emerges – we read again – is the absence of emotional empathy with a fact of such unprecedented brutality, such as to rail against the body, going to the bathing establishment to swim in the sea, without calling for help or reporting the fact to the authorities, or rather chatting with macabre irony about the event that has just happened”.
On the phone of a man arrested, photos on the beach after the crime
Photo on the beach, with fist on chest and proud attitude. It is the one found on the phone of one of the two 16-year-olds arrested for the murder, taken at 6.21pm on Sunday, shortly after the crime in the park. The smartphone in question is part of the material seized. The image is attached to the arrest decree of the Prosecutor’s Office at the Juvenile Court of L’Aquila. The provision also includes some frames of images from the video surveillance systems present in the park area. The small group of boys, including the victim, can be seen inside the green area, at 4.54 pm. Then some of them move towards the vegetation, where the 17-year-old was killed. They will then emerge from the vegetation at 5.21pm. “The boy with the white sweatshirt and blue Bermuda shorts, later identified as Luciani Christopher Thomas – we read – will never be seen going out again”. The images also allow us to confirm what emerged from the boys’ testimonies, namely that one of the alleged murderers changed in the vegetation before reappearing in front of the cameras.
