Andrea wanted to disarm his brother: then the three gunshots and death

Andrea Pintus may have died after attempting to disarm his brother Alessandro, who was completely out of control at the time after he had fired a gunshot at Solanas's wife Michela Rubiu, less than half an hour earlier, at 5:40 a.m. last Thursday. The gunshot struck her in the head and left her near death (she remains in critical condition, but stable). This appears to have been the culmination of yet another argument in an increasingly stormy and troubled relationship.

Still in the throes of a blind rage, the 39-year-old bricklayer – currently serving time for murder and attempted murder – drove to Margine Rosso, on the Quartu coast, perhaps thinking he could find refuge in his family home on Via Asfodelo.

Here, however, in addition to his elderly parents, there was also his older brother Andrea, 42, who, after receiving his confession, courageously confronted him in the courtyard, receiving in response three 7.65 caliber shots fired almost at point-blank range that killed him instantly.

This is the possible reconstruction of the bloody dawn that unfolded on that cursed July 23rd, as leaked by sources close to the families of the victims of this immense tragedy.

Massimo Ledda/Raffaele Serreli