The death toll from Sunday's shooting
at a meeting in Rome of owners of properties in a residential
complex has climbed to four after a 50-year-old woman, Fabiana
De Angelis, died of her injuries on Tuesday.
The alleged gunman, Claudio Campiti, answered some questions
during a hearing before a preliminary investigations judge at
the capital's Regina Coeli jail on Wednesday but remained silent
when asked about the key points of the attack.
The massacre could have been worse as Campiti had 170 bullets
and a second cartridge with him, but was unable to use them as
other participants in the meeting managed to stop and restrain
him until the police arrived.
The deceased were all women. Three other people were injured in
the attack.
Campiti had long been at odds with the management of the
complex and had been denied a gun permit for having repeatedly
issued threats.
He stole the murder weapon from a Rome shooting range that he
was a member of.
This has raised questions about how Campiti was able to access
these guns even though he had been denied a permit and about the
procedures that enabled him to sneak the weapon out of the
range.
Prosecutors have charged him with premeditated mass murder.
He had 6,000 euros and a rucksack full of clothes with him on
Sunday, suggesting he intended to go on the run after the
massacre.
The fact that he had so much money also appears odd as he had
reportedly been claiming the 'citizenship-wage' minimum income
benefit since 2020.
One of the victims, 50-year-old Nicoletta Golisano, was a friend
of Premier Giorgia Meloni.
"Nicoletta was a protective mother, an honest and discrete
friend and a woman who was strong and fragile at the same time,"
Meloni said in a Facebook post about Golisano, a wife and mother
of a 10-year boy who was an auditor for the association that
manages the complex.
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