ROME – The death toll from Sunday's shooting at a meeting of owners of properties in a residential complex in Rome has climbed to four after a 50-year-old woman, Fabiana De Angelis, died of her injuries on Tuesday.
The alleged gunman, Claudio Campiti, answered some questions during a hearing before a preliminary investigation judge at the capital's Regina Coeli jail on Wednesday but remained silent when asked about the key points of the attack.
The massacre could have been worse as Campiti had 170 bullets and a second cartridge with him, but was unable to use them as other participants in the meeting managed to stop and restrain him until the police arrived.
The deceased were all women. Three other people were injured in the attack.
Campiti had long been at odds with the management of the complex and had been denied a gun permit for having repeatedly issued threats.
He stole the murder weapon from a Rome shooting range that he was a member of.
This has raised questions about how Campiti was able to access these guns even though he had been denied a permit and about the procedures that enabled him to sneak the weapon out of the range.
Prosecutors have charged him with premeditated mass murder.
He had 6,000 euros and a rucksack full of clothes with him on Sunday, suggesting he intended to go on the run after the massacre.
The fact that he had so much money also appears odd as he had reportedly been claiming the 'citizenship-wage' minimum income benefit since 2020.
One of the victims, 50-year-old Nicoletta Golisano, was a friend of Premier Giorgia Meloni.
"Nicoletta was a protective mother, an honest and discrete friend and a woman who was strong and fragile at the same time," Meloni said in a Facebook post about Golisano, a wife and mother of a 10-year boy, who was an auditor for the association that manages the complex. (ANSA)
