He stabbed his mother at home, then attacked the woman's partner who had gone to the police station to report the incident ; here a policeman intervened, who was in turn wounded with a knife, a colleague fired a shot in the leg of the attacker who died in hospital.

This is what happened last night in Naples, where a 29-year-old, already known to the police, died at Vecchio Pellegrini.

The incident took place after 10pm, when the police intervened in an apartment in via Pietro Colletta for a family dispute. The young man had struck his mother with a knife during an assault.

The latter's companion went to the Vicaria-Mercato Commissariat in Piazza Enrico De Nicola to report the incident, but was joined by the 29-year-old who tried to stab him in the throat with a knife in the atrium. At that point a policeman intervened who tried to disarm him, but was in turn reached in the right leg, preventing a further blow to the throat , attempted by the 29-year-old. A second policeman intervened and fired a shot that mortally wounded the attacker.

The woman was taken to the Cardarelli hospital in green code, while the companion in yellow code to Vecchio Pellegrini. The 29-year-old, transported in red code to the Vecchio Pellegrini hospital, died during the night.

(Unioneonline/F)

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