A haemorrhagic shock: this is how, according to the results of the autopsy carried out by the medical examiner Roberto Demontis in the municipal cemetery of Nuoro, Giovanni "Crerio" Mureddu died, the 49-year-old lorry driver from Fonni killed in the night between Thursday and Friday by blows of firearm.
The body will now be returned to the family for the funeral, but the date has not yet been set.
The shots were fired from two weapons: a rifle and a pistol.
According to the reconstruction of the men of the Nuoro Flying Squad investigating the crime - coordinated by the Prosecutor Ireno Satta - Mureddu had gone to via Brigata Sassari to arrange some things in the garages under his brother Alessandro's house. Together they worked as contract hauliers.
He parked the truck on the other side of the road, a red Iveco, loaded with bales of alfalfa that he was supposed to take to its destination the next morning. When he came out he headed to the side street, where the car was parked, perhaps to return home to via Gobetti, where he lived with his elderly parents. Mureddu was getting into the Fiat Sedici, his brother's car, when the killer opened fire from close range with a rifle, at the intersection of via Marceddu and via Brigata Sassari.
Injured, Crerio abandoned the car and ran away on foot down a narrow road that leads to the countryside . The killer chased him and caught up after just fifty meters. Or a second killer waited for him in what could have been the only escape route . Mureddu was hit again, this time with a gun, also in the head. He fell to the ground and bled to death.
It was a fellow villager from Mureddu who came across the gunshot-riddled body and raised the alarm. An important witness whose reconstruction could provide useful information to shed light on the crime. The information collected will then be compared with the results of the interviews of the victim's friends and relatives, with the images obtained from some cameras present in the area and with the results of the analyzes by the Scientific Police.
(Unioneonline/D)
