Three shots in sequence, exploded on the street in Nuoro. On the ground the body of Luca Virde, 42 years old from Silanus, who was probably returning to Badu 'e Carros, where he was serving a sentence for murder.

The crime took place late yesterday evening in via Romano Ruiu. Someone waited for him, perhaps behind the line of parked cars or perhaps aboard a car, he passed at the right time, and fired a shotgun loaded with buckshot and then fled.

The carabinieri have set up numerous checkpoints to capture the murderer and are viewing the video surveillance images in the area.

Among the leads followed by the investigators there is also the one that links the fact to the victim's precedent: it was 2012, during a party in the square in Silanus Virde and Arca had quarreled then the first had pulled out a knife and hit his rival in the heart , escaping to deliver himself to the police station a week later.

In 2013 he was sentenced in the first instance, in February of the following year the sentence of the Court of Appeal and the sentence to 15 years in prison. And last night he was returning to his cell after a reward leave.

(Unioneonline)

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