Salerno, man punched to death by his friend after a night of drugs.

An ordinary evening, spent between the streets and the apartment, turned into a theater of violence and death. Vincenzo Mazza, 35, originally from Angri, never left the home of Luca Fedele, the friend with whom he would spend his final hours, alive.

His lifeless body was found in the home of Luca Fedele, 49, a former amateur boxer from Salerno, now under investigation for manslaughter.
According to initial reports, Mazza fell and hit his head violently on the ground after being punched, a blow that left him no chance. It was an accidental but fatal fall, which occurred at the height of an altercation that erupted in a context already compromised by drug use.

The dynamics: the story that doesn't hold up

The crime took place on the first floor of a building on Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, in the Santa Margherita neighborhood. Fedele himself raised the alarm, offering a confusing and unlikely version of events to emergency responders: he claimed to have surprised Mazza—whom he claimed not to know—while he was attempting to burgle the house.

He says he was attacked and fought back, sparking a fight that ended in tragedy. His story only lasted a few minutes, until the Carabinieri of the Salerno Company arrived.

In the apartment, in fact, they found cocaine and crack cocaine arranged in a way that was incompatible with the hypothesis of a burglary: more than a break-in, the scenario was that of a "happy evening" spent between the two.

Taken to the barracks, Fedele offered no resistance. He drifted in and out of versions, changing one after another during a night-long interrogation. It's unclear whether this was due to the effects of the drugs he had taken or to try to throw the investigation off track.

The shadows on the evening and the points to be clarified

What now seems certain is that Mazza and Fedele spent the hours preceding the crime together. Witnesses reported seeing them on the street before they returned to the apartment. Then the argument erupted, the cause of which remains unknown, perhaps triggered by both men's mental and physical changes.

The victim, who had no criminal record, was being treated at a mental health center for mental health issues. An explosive mix that would have transformed an evening among acquaintances into an irreversible drama.

According to initial theories, a punch to the face caused Mazza's fall. An autopsy will determine whether the blow directly caused death or whether the fall was fatal.

Meanwhile, Fedele remains held in Fuorni prison. Mazza's body is under seizure at the disposal of the judicial authorities, as is the apartment on Via D'Annunzio, where investigators will have to complete their investigations to reconstruct every detail of the night that took the life of a 35-year-old and opened a disturbing new crime case.