Two Daytime Street Ambushes in Naples Area Kill Castrese Palumbo and Another Man
Anti-mafia prosecutors in Naples are directing the Marano inquiry, focusing on organized-crime dynamics as investigators search for the shooters.
Overview
- Castrese Palumbo, 79, was found shot dead in the driver’s seat of a Toyota Yaris in Marano at the corner of via Svizzera and Corso Europa.
- Carabinieri documented a targeted hit at the Marano scene, recovering twelve 9mm shell casings.
- A preliminary reconstruction reports motorcycle-borne attackers wearing full-face helmets who fired multiple shots.
- The Naples DDA has taken over the Marano case under prosecutor Maria Sepe, with motive still unconfirmed.
- Hours later in Arzano, 39-year-old Armando Lupoli was fatally shot on via Mazzini and died in hospital, and no arrests have been announced in either attack.