The investigation by the Naples Flying Squad is now focusing on the roles played by two adults, friends of the 16-year-old who confessed to the murder of 24-year-old musician Giovanbattista Cutolo.
The activities aim to shed light on several details that are still unclear: the boy who shot the 24-year-old three times in the central Piazza Municipio in Naples at dawn on August 31st reported that one of the friends who were with him passed him the gun.
Meanwhile, tomorrow is scheduled for the hearing to validate the arrest warrant issued against the young man by the State Police and the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office of Naples for the crimes of aggravated voluntary homicide, possession, illegal carrying and receiving of a weapon.
The scooter was not his but a friend's and Giovanbattista Cutolo had tried to make peace. This is the main investigation hypothesis. He and some friends had been attacked by a baby gang, a group of three minors, and behind them was the 16-year-old from the Spanish Quarters in Naples armed with a gun who opened fire and hit Giovanbattista from behind.
All the boys involved in the fight, which broke out over a scooter parking spot, were interviewed by the Flying Squad officers and for now no one has been reported, but it is not excluded that there could be measures taken soon.
The killer, who admitted to having fired the gun and had it found, said however that he had not killed voluntarily, but that the shot had gone off accidentally, during the fight.
16-Year-Old Shooter 'Just Defending Myself'
“I didn’t want to kill anyone, I just defended myself when I saw the other boy coming towards me in a threatening tone.” This is how the 16-year-old stopped by the Flying Squad and the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office of Naples for the murder of the 24-year-old musician Giovanbattista Cutolo defended himself during the first interrogation given to the prosecutor Francesco Regine.
The minor, with a criminal record for attempted murder committed when he was just 13 years old, gave his version of what happened at dawn on August 31, a dynamic already confirmed by the images from the video surveillance cameras in Piazza Municipio, the heart of the capital: images from which emerge insults, brawls and gunshots but also the precise responsibilities of the minor.
The victims' friends and eleven rivals would have faced each other, four from the Spanish Quarters, including the 16-year-old who shot, and seven from Piazza Bellini. The boy also said that the gun was not in his possession but was kept by one of his group who passed it to him when the situation became heated.
Defended by the lawyer Davide Piccirillo, the 16-year-old confirmed that that night there was a fight outside the club in Piazza Municipio, where two groups of kids were hanging out, that of the minor and the other of Cutolo and his friends.
Before the shooting, a sachet of mayonnaise was also emptied on a friend of Cutolo
The argument, which later turned into a brawl, began - the minor said - between a boy who knew Cutolo's group and his friends, and for very trivial reasons, such as the scooter belonging to the minor's group being hit while parking and a packet of mayonnaise that a friend of the 16-year-old had emptied on the young acquaintance of the musician's group.
The minor then reported that Cutolo's group intervened to defend the offended boy, a fight broke out, during which "some people defended themselves with their hands or kicks, some threw a stool or some chairs".
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