A retired road inspector was
allegedly killed by his neighbour with three gunshots at close
range near the Sardinian city of Nuoro on Friday, police said.
Antonio Longu, 71, was killed midmorning in the yard of his
home in the village of Lula.
The prime suspect is the victim's neighbour, 74-year-old
Mario Farris, who is being closely guarded in a Nuoro hospital
after suffering a sudden illness.
Longu and Farris lived in the same two-storey tenement
block in Via Dei Mille.
It is thought the pair had a row over a TV antenna shortly
before the murder.
Farris served over 20 years in prison for murdering his
pregnant wife and throwing her body in a river in Germany in
1974.
He returned to Lula after his release.
The last murder in Lula took place a year ago, when animal
breeder Angelo Maria Piras, 40, was shot dead with a rifle on
his farm. His brother and his brother's wife were arrested for
the crime in November.
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