Overview
- A 63-year-old man, Piero Moriconi, shot and killed his 24-year-old son Mirko and his wife Kety at their home in Pieve di Camaiore on Wednesday, June 24, and was disarmed and arrested by relatives and Carabinieri.
- In a formal interrogation before prosecutor Elena Leone the suspect said “L’ho fatto perché andava fatto” and told investigators he was ‘anxious because my son was gay’ while also citing long-running family tensions and disputes over money.
- Police confirmed the weapon was a legally owned hunting rifle, the house has been sequestered for technical-scientific inspections, and forensic teams continue to reconstruct the sequence of shots and check witness accounts.
- Reporting and family sources say Mirko used the name Michelangelo Andreoni online, sought support from a transgender consultory and posted in 2022 that a father had told him he would ‘prefer you dead rather than gay,’ details now part of investigators’ context but not a legally established motive.
- Local LGBT groups and the community have called for stronger support and reporting channels for people facing family rejection, and the prosecutor has framed premeditation in the indictment as the inquiry and the defendant’s court hearings proceed.