Killed by three gunshots while driving the scooter: ambush on the seafront

Ambush in Bari.

A 31-year-old boy, Ivan Lopez, was shot dead last night while on the street in the San Girolamo neighborhood.

The young man, with a history of robbery, was reportedly traveling on a scooter when the hitman reached him in a car, got out, shot and fled. At least three shots reached the 31-year-old, but for the investigators the killer fired others. It happened around 10 pm on the Lungomare IX Maggio at the height of the public houses.

Transferred at the end of his life to the Policlinico di Bari, Lopez died in the night despite all the attempts of the doctors to revive him. The carabinieri of the provincial command investigate the episode, coordinated by the prosecutor of the Dda of Bari Bruna Manganelli. The images of the cameras, present in the area of the seafront, even if not exactly at the point of the crime, are also being examined.

The San Girolamo district is one of the districts of the city where the Mafia clan Strisciuglio operates. The victim is not affiliated with the clan: the investigative hypothesis is in any case that of a crime matured in the criminal sphere, even if no track is excluded.

(Unioneonline / D)