Crime-fighting lawyer shot to death

(ANSA) - Latina, May 29 - An Italian lawyer and blogger was discovered shot to death Friday in the seaside town of Formia near Rome.
    Mario Piccolino was found in his office with a gunshot wound to the head. Piccolino was a local institution of sorts for his website freevillage.it, which focused on crime and illegality in the Pontina area just southwest of Rome. The killer made an appointment with Piccolino to gain access, investigators said.
    The activist lawyer in 2009 was savagely beaten with a carjack in his office, and had been the recipient of numerous "warnings" to desist from his investigative blogging.
    These included chopped-off animal heads and fish entrails being left on his doorstep, sources said.