Courthouse shooter killed his ex lawyer

(ANSA) - Milan, April 9 - Claudio Giardiello, who shot at least three people dead at a Milan courthouse on Thursday, reportedly owned several businesses in the construction sector.
    The 57-year-old was born in Benevento in the southern Campania region and is a resident of Brugherio, a town in the northern Lombardy region. He is reportedly separated from his wife and has two children, a son and a daughter.
    He faced extreme financial difficulties, which sparked several lawsuits.
    One of the men he killed with a shot to the chest today, 37-year-old Lorenzo Alberto Claris Appiani, had been his lawyer but was in court as a witness in a bankruptcy case against him.
    "Giardiello used to be my nephew's client," lawyer Alessandro Brambilla Pisoni, Appiani's uncle, told ANSA.
    "Then he started causing a lot of trouble so my nephew declined to represent him. I knew he was in court as a witness today because Giardiello had been sued".
    Neighbors of the killer in Brugherio described Giardiello as a "cordial, very well-mannered person".
    "I was speechless when I heard he's the man from the courthouse shooting," his next-door neighbor told ANSA.
    "He always seemed like an easy-going person to me".