A 26-year-old woman was gunned
down in a street at Aci Trezza near Catania on Sunday night and
her 38-year-old ex-boyfriend, the prime suspect, was found
hanged in a farmhouse in the area Monday.
Carabinieri had started a manhunt for the man, who had been
cited for stalking the woman, who was named as Vanessa Zappalà.
She was reportedly hit by several shots while she was walking
with friends along the sea front at Aci Trezza, a seaside hamlet
of Aci Castello.
The boyfriend, named as Antonino Sciuto, had been placed under
house arrest for stalking.
His body was found hanging in the farm building in the
countryside at Trecastagni.
Carabinieri police found it after spotting his car parked
outside.
Autopsies have been ordered.
The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) said Zappala's muder was
"a defeat for the State like all the cases of pre-announced
femicide".
Femicides have risen in Italy during recent COVID-19 lockdowns.
Aci Trezza is famous in Italian literature as the setting for
Giovanni Verga's masterpiece 'I Malavoglia' (The House By The
Medlar Tree).
Sciuto's Facebook profile has the famous line from the Al Pacino
hit Scarface, "I don't forget anything, I just wait for the
right moment" as well as a photo of a man pointing a gun to a
women's head, captioned "I love you".
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