Naples. It seems like the story of a cursed family, that of the Caiafa of the Spanish Quarters: father and son killed in different circumstances and an 18-year-old son arrested for killing his cousin while handling a gun.
On the night of October 4, 2020, an attempted robbery in Naples turned tragic. Luigi Caiafa, riding a stolen scooter with his accomplice Ciro De Tommaso (son of the notorious Genny 'a Carogna), attempted to rob a group of young people in their car on Via Duomo.
The situation escalated when a police patrol intervened. De Tommaso pointed his gun at the officers, while Caiafa urged his accomplice to shoot. One of the officers, feeling threatened, opened fire, fatally wounding Caiafa.
The investigation and the sentence
Caiaphas's death sparked heated controversy, with his family accusing the police of carrying out the execution. However, a thorough judicial investigation debunked this theory.
The judge concluded that the policeman had acted legitimately in defense of himself and his colleagues, finding himself faced with a situation of grave danger.
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Luigi's father, Ciro Caiafa, was killed in an ambush in Naples two months after his son's death. His was a true Camorra execution: he was in a basement apartment in Sedil Capuano, Naples, where he was getting a tattoo.
It was December 31, 2020: the killers entered through a window and killed Ciro Caiafa while he was sitting on the tattoo artist's bed. The shots left him no escape, also wounding the 28-year-old tattoo artist, with no criminal record, fortunately not seriously.
And since yesterday afternoon Renato Benedetto Caiaphas He is being held in Poggioreale prison on charges of carrying and possessing a clandestine weapon and receiving stolen goods. But above all, he is being investigated for the manslaughter of his cousin Arcangelo Correra.
Renato Benedetto Caiafa: "What a mess I've made!"
The boy had the weapon found (a 9x21 Beretta) and confessed yesterday afternoon at the police station in front of the prosecutor and in the presence of his lawyer: “What a mess I made. I didn’t think it was real, I’d never seen a gun before. We were playing. I only understood everything when I saw the blood on Arcangelo’s body. I didn’t mean to, I didn’t mean to.”
Now the Naples mobile squad is continuing its investigations to find out who sold the weapon and to whom, and also whether there were other people present at the time of Arcangelo Correa's killing, in addition to a 17-year-old third cousin.
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