Overview
- Prosecutors have placed a 50-year-old friend of 82-year-old victim Antonio Gatani under investigation for homicide and seized his firearms for comparison.
- Carabinieri RIS in Messina are analyzing the three rifles found by the bodies and the seized weapons, with a gunshot-residue stub test on the suspect initiated.
- Investigators say the victims lay about 30 meters apart and that Davis Pino was first hit from a distance then killed at close range, a sequence that implies another shooter.
- Two working hypotheses remain under review: an accidental shot that escalated into multiple killings or a dispute over hunting territory, with the latter now viewed as more plausible by investigators.
- Anomalies under scrutiny include Gatani’s dog locked in his car with GPS data suggesting it never left, the suspect’s claim he departed before the gunfire, and funerals now scheduled for Friday after the bodies were released.