The 75-year-old who had fired a hunting rifle, slightly wounding three young people who with other friends were celebrating a new graduate, jumped from the terrace of his house in Padua and died. The man was reported and his weapon was confiscated. The police squad, the Flying Squad and the Scientific Police of the Padua Police Headquarters were on site.
The young people, about twenty, were on a terrace of a building and it was just after midnight when, while they were reading the papyrus of the new graduate, they heard the echo of a sharp bang, like that of a large firecracker . Three of the boys, two aged 26 and one aged 22, noticed that their arms were bleeding, thus realizing that they had been targeted by a gunshot. The police intervened on site and carried out a search on their computerized system to understand who among the inhabitants of the neighborhood was in possession of a weapons licence.
The response arrived quickly and a single name appeared, the 75-year-old who lived in a building right in front of the one where the boys were celebrating. The soldiers showed up at the house of the man who had left the rifle on his terrace, with some cartridges still nearby, including the one used against the "disturbers". The weapon was placed on a table on the terrace which is about forty meters away as the crow flies from that of the victims.
The suspect had admitted his responsibilities by stating that he had acted so irritated by the noise of the celebrations that they had gone beyond midnight. The three injured people, who then filed a complaint, were treated in the emergency room and judged to be recoverable in a few days due to the abrasions caused by the shotgun pellets. The man, however, had been reported for dangerous explosion, illegal possession of weapons for ammunition, failure to keep the weapon and injuries. Then the decision to take his own life.
(Unioneonline/D)
