On the evening of December 17, 2025, Ottavio Colalongo was caught and killed on Via Garibaldi: videos capture the arrival, the run, and the final shots to the head. Then the hitmen make a mistake: the gun and fanny pack end up in a trash can, and a fingerprint on a phone leads to Antonio Aloia. In the background, months of pressure on San Vitaliano and the challenge to the "Filippini": "Whoever is strongest goes ahead." With Colalongo's name appearing months earlier in the conversations.
According to the arrest warrant issued by prosecutor Henry John Woodcock of the Naples DDA against eight people (there are twelve under investigation), the December 17, 2025, execution on Via Garibaldi is being reconstructed minute by minute thanks to video. Thus, the Colalongo murder becomes a textbook investigative case.
The video – The wait, the Transalp, the breakaway and the “finishing shots”
According to the documents, the action took place on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in Scisciano on a narrow and precisely identified stretch: from number 52 (waiting) to number 56/A (discovery of the body), up to number 66 (where the hitmen's motorbike was found).
Footage from a bar shows the victim arriving at 18:59:33 PM in a white Honda SH. At 19:00:33 PM, according to the videos, the Honda Transalp arrives with two people on board, and the passenger gets out toward Colalongo.
The investigators acquired images of the systems installed along the perimeter of the villa at number 58 and those of the bar (Via Garibaldi 50), and already from the first viewing – it is written – possible to observe the methods of execution and conduct of the perpetrators.
The images from the bar document the victim's arrival: Colalongo arrived at 18:59:33 PM on board a white Honda SH scooter (license plate ET93963), drove past the bar, turned around, and stopped "in a waiting position" near a radar beacon on a red and white pole.
A minute later, at 19:00:33 PM, the Transalp arrives with two people on board: it overtakes the scooter, stops a little further ahead and the passenger gets off and heads towards Colalongo.
At that point – again according to the reconstruction in the documents – Colalongo dropped the scooter and attempted to flee in the direction of Nola, while being chased and hit by gunfire.
At the house at number 56, both victim and attacker fall; the killer gets up, and after a brief struggle, fires further shots to the head, leaving Colalongo lifeless on the ground.
The documents highlight that the camera at number 58 filmed the crucial moments at close range and describe the closure as a "real execution", because some shots were fired to the head when the victim was already on the ground, followed by further shots to the body before he walked away.
The detail that reinforces the timeline is in the attached frames: at 19:00:54 the killer-victim scene is fixed; at 19:00:58 we see the killer fire further shots at the head of the victim lying on the ground.
Immediately afterward, the killer reaches his accomplice who is waiting for him in front of the house at number 66; once they get on the bike, they fall, pick it up again, but it most likely won't restart, and the two walk away, leaving it behind.
The Green Bin – The Abandoned Trial and the “Belt Detail”
Near the Transalp, the workers notice the presence of a green garbage bin and inspect it.
Inside, a semi-automatic pistol with a cocked hammer was found, as well as a fanny pack identical to the one seen in the videos of the killer using.
The pouch's authenticity is "anchored" by one detail: in the video, the shoulder strap appears to break during the fall; the pouch found actually has a broken strap.
The pistol is a Beretta mod. 8000 Cougar (cat. 7918), serial number 023712MC, with one bullet in the chamber and one in the magazine, and with markings on the bases reported in the documents.
Investigators point out that the bullets found in the gun are of the same caliber as the shell casings found on the pavement around the victim.
In the database, the weapon is reported stolen with a report dated June 27, 2025 presented at the CC Station of Sant'Arpino (CE).
The pouch contained “operational” contents: two SIM cards with IMSI, three sets of keys, a Citroën car key, four sildenafil tablets, a 20 euro note, a 10 euro note, and three switched-on cell phones (two green Redmis and a purple Realme).
The Technical Breakthrough – The Phone's Fingerprint and the Name: Antonio Aloia
A fingerprint inspection was performed on one of the phones found in the pouch and a papillary imprint was highlighted.
The Investigative Unit of Castello di Cisterna consulted the 7th Section of the RONI of Naples, which prepared a technical report. The reported result was the fingerprint identity between the useful trace and the right thumbprint of Antonio Aloia (Naples, March 4, 1978), with a correspondence of at least 21 details (minutiae) in terms of shape, position, and orientation.
The file also reveals a logistical lead linked to the Citroën key: the keychain prompted investigators to question the rental manager, and a Leasys tracking device was identified.
The investigations led to the identification of a Citroën C3 with license plate GT622BL in Casamarciano, at Via Santa Maria 30, where the car was seized.
The context – San Vitaliano, pressure and the recurring phrase: "the strongest advance."
According to the ordinance cited in the text, the San Vitaliano area is considered an area of interest and friction between the group linked to Luongo–Covone–Aloia and the “Filippini” group, considered to be dominant in drug trafficking.
The intercepted conversations document Luongo's desire to continue directing and overseeing criminal activities despite his detention, fighting his opponents "even with the use of weapons."
The sequence of wiretaps (January–April 2025) describes Guardasole's double game, the initiation of the friction, the demands attributed to Luongo and the Filippini's response: "we don't want to sit at the table with anyone, whoever is stronger goes ahead".
In this context, one passage becomes central: on March 29, 2025, a woman asks if "the name... Ottavio is always involved," and Guardasole responds that "the name is involved," adding that if "a tarantella" breaks out, Ottavio should go "to all of them" to carry out the extortion.
Another turning point: in the account of the video call between Agostino Filippin and Nicola Luongo, Guardasole reports that Luongo said he knew "Francesco" and mentioned "Ottavio's name," a circumstance considered by investigators to indicate that Luongo already knew Colalongo's location within the Filippini perimeter as early as March 2025.
It is reported below that, after the refusal to "sit at the table", the final embassy that Filippini Agostino decided to send was still that formula: "whoever is strongest goes forward".
Epilogue – September 2025: “I have to watch myself, my name is walking around Afragola”
On September 29, 2025 (progressive 6134) Colalongo appears in an environmental conversation complaining about the reduction in his weekly payment and, above all, saying that he has been created “only a big problem with Afragola” because “my name goes for Afragola”.
When asked directly, “O Luongo?”, Colalongo said he was approached and added, “I have to watch myself,” demonstrating—according to the documents—awareness of the risk he was running.
He concludes by saying that he is "in the midst of everyone" and "on everyone's lips," a phrase that the ordinance highlights as a sign of increasing pressure before the ambush on December 17.
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Colalongo's murder is a very serious and disturbing event. The video reconstructions are shocking, but they also reveal how difficult the situation is in that area. We hope investigators can shed light on this matter.