A week on the run. Seven days trying to hide from a fate that seemed sealed from the start. Luigi Ottavio Manzilli, 33 years old from Mondragone, would have remained out for several more days, hoping that the waters would calm down so he could then try to return to his city that he had abandoned, most likely, on Wednesday 4 September, a few hours after having fired two gunshots to the chest at Ferdinando Longobardi, 29 years old, outside the victim's house, in the San Nicola district of Mondragone.
The Carabinieri of the Caserta Operations Department are convinced that the 29-year-old's killer is the man arrested Wednesday night in a hotel between Pozzuoli and Quarto. And it was on him that the attention was focused in the hours immediately following the murder: the investigators combined the accounts of some witnesses with the images from the cameras in the neighborhood and pointed straight at Manzilli. Who, in the hours immediately following the crime, left Mondragone.
This made the Carabinieri even more suspicious and they started keeping an eye on the family members. It took a lot of patience, before the turning point on Wednesday. When the soldiers followed a family member who, not realizing he was being followed, led them to the hotel where Manzilli was hiding. A misstep that cost him his arrest. Fearing the dangerousness of the 33-year-old, 20 Carabinieri went into action and broke into the room and didn't even give him time to understand what was happening.
THE MOTIVE REMAINS TO BE CLARIFIED
The man is now under arrest for murder, but the investigation is ongoing. The positions of other people are being examined, including some family members, who may have played a role in the escape and in helping to hide. The motive for the murder remains unclear, which according to investigators “matured in an environment particularly steeped in crime” and which could be the epilogue of a series of disagreements between the victim and the suspect. The next few hours could be important in this sense, to definitively close the circle.
Gustavo Gentile
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