Nuoro, worker exterminates family: "He was a quiet man, no warning or complaint"

A family massacre committed by a seemingly unsuspecting, beloved and well-liked man.

Instead, in Nuoro , around 7 this morning, horror unfolded when, in a house at number 5 of via Ichnusa, Roberto Gleboni, a 52-year-old forestry worker, took a legally held 7.65 caliber pistol and shot and killed first his wife – Maria Giuseppina Massetti, 43 years old – and then his eldest daughter, Martina, 25 years old . He then opened fire on his other two children, aged 14 and 10 , and on a neighbour, Paolo Sanna , wounding all three, with the youngest child in desperate conditions, as hospital sources specified after the first excited reports that the child was already dead.

Finally, Gleboni moved to the home of his mother, Maria Esterina Riccardi , in via Gonario Pinna, attacking and injuring her too, before taking his own life.

On site, after the alarm, the Carabinieri and the Police officers intervened, who are now conducting the investigations jointly, coordinated by the Deputy Public Prosecutors Riccardo Belfiori and Sandra Piccicuto.

Investigators are working not only to reconstruct all the details of the tragedy, but also to provide a motive for the massacre .

As mentioned, the man is described by residents in the neighborhood as a "quiet and helpful" person , the weapon was legally held and his daughter Martina, one of the victims of his fury, had dedicated her law degree obtained two years ago to him, with these words, entrusted to social media: "To my father, the greatest love of my life" . Furthermore, there are no previous reports or complaints of violence within the family.

The bodies of Giuseppina Massetti and Martina Gleboni have already been removed from the house on Via Ichnusa , and a first external examination of their bodies and that of the murderer has been carried out by the coroner Roberto Demontis . The autopsy on the bodies of the three victims will most likely be carried out carried out, according to leaks, on Saturday morning in the municipal cemetery of Nuoro.

While the community of Nuoro is in shock over the incident and while the injured are being treated at the San Francesco hospital in Nuoro, investigators are trying to understand what could have unleashed such a homicidal fury , which at the moment remains inexplicable.