"I heard a loud bang, as if someone had knocked over a large piece of furniture. Then the shots in rapid sequence, there must have been five or six but I thought they were firecrackers or something like that. Then unfortunately we discovered the massacre."
People are speaking in hushed tones around the house on Via Ichnusa, in Nuoro, where yesterday the forestry worker Roberto Gleboni, 52, exterminated his family - only a 14-year-old son survived - and shot a neighbor, before showing up at his mother's house, on Via Guiso, also wounding her with a shot to the neck, before taking his own life.
A massacre that currently remains without a motive. The question everyone is asking, faced with such a tragedy, is: why? Men and women on the street can only make hypotheses and conjectures. The investigators, however, coordinated by the Nuoro prosecutors Riccardo Belfiori and Sara Piccicuto, who work side by side with the State Police and the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Nuoro, will dig into the memory of smartphones and technological devices of the husband and father, turned murderer, and of his victims: his wife Giuseppina Massetti, 43 years old, and his daughter Martina, 25. The other son killed, Francesco, was only 10 years old. And instead , the neighbor Paolo Sanna, 69 years old, was killed almost by chance, having met Gleboni on the landing while he was coming out with the gun in his hand, while moving between one crime scene and another.
Friends and acquaintances of the members of the destroyed family will be heard. And, when they feel like it, the surviving son and elderly grandmother.
The neighbors speak of a peaceful atmosphere, the criminal records tell of a worker with no criminal record and no charges against him . People, however, do what they always do: they gossip. And that recent irregular behavior of Gleboni is reinterpreted in the light of what happened at dawn yesterday. And here are those who speak of problems with some of the residents. Of his alleged harshness of character. Of recent disagreements with his wife, to whom he had become attached when she was a minor: before the massacre, this is certain, in the house of Monte Gurtei there was an argument between the spouses. But this appears more like a prologue, than as the motive for a massacre. While his colleagues portray him as someone available and attentive to the needs of others, who had not changed in recent times.
But nothing and no one, so far, has provided useful elements to try to explain a trail of blood that, when it reaches the murderer's mother, appears incomprehensible.
(Online Union)