Lucrezia Ciotti An extreme gesture, committed within the domestic walls, has upset the peace of Villa di Tirano, a small town in the Valtellina at the border with Switzerland. A 55 year old man he killed his mother 89 years old, ill and not self-sufficient for some time, and then turned the gun on himself, taking his own life.
The tragedy occurred today, Monday 23 June.
Tragedy in Valtellina: Man Kills Mother, Then Commits Suicide
Tragedy familiar in Valtellina: a 55-year-old man killed his 89-year-old mother, seriously ill and for some time not self-sufficient, shooting her with a firearm inside their home. Immediately after, he committed suicide using the same gun.
The tragedy occurred today, Monday 23 June, in a building in Villa di Tirano, a small town in the province of Sondrio, a few kilometres from the Swiss border. Both bodies were reportedly found inside the apartment.
Valtellina: Man Kills Mother, Then Commits Suicide. Investigations Underway
The Carabinieri of the Tirano Company intervened on site, supported by colleagues from the Sondrio Provincial Command and by specialists from the Scientific Police. investigations, coordinated by the magistrate on duty of the Sondrio Public Prosecutor's Office, Piero Basilone, I am still working to clarify the dynamics specify and reconstruct the reasons for the extreme gesture.
The investigators are not excluding any hypothesis at the moment, even if the first elements collected seem to confirm themurder-suicide hypothesis linked to a context of family fragility and desperation.