kills his wife and mother-in-law and then runs away- Corriere.it

Double homicide, Monday night, in Massafra, province of Taranto. A 61-year-old man, Antonio Granata, killed his 65-year-old wife, Carolina Bruno, and his 91-year-old mother-in-law, Lorenza Addolorata Carano, beating them with a work tool, a large blade (perhaps a scythe). ) used in the field. It happened on via Da Vinci in the city center. The carabinieri pursue the fleeing murderer. The road has been cordoned off. The provincial commander of the Arma Luca Steffensen and the on-duty deputy attorney Marco Colascilla Narducci arrived at the scene.

The scene

The scene where the first soldiers crossed was terrible: the two women were on the ground, in two different rooms, beaten with unprecedented ferocity on the neck and head. To warn of the massacre, it was the murderer himself, who would later have made him lose track of himself, disappearing in the car. By calling 112, immediately after killing the two women, Granata would have hinted that he wanted to kill himself. Some witnesses reportedly saw him commit acts of self-harm while walking away. In a note, the police speak of a “heated fight” that would have preceded the two femicides.

“They tried to block it”

The man on the run, working as a pruner. To tell it is the mayor of Massafra, Fabrizio Quarto. Who also says that “there were also those who tried to block Grenade but he fled with his car.” The mayor adds that “he had heard the news together with the first details from the local police and the Massafra carabinieri company.” “The community is shocked by this terrible news – concludes the mayor -. The family was not cared for by municipal social services and the couple had no children. It is a tragedy that has shocked us a lot and also occurred in very difficult days marked by the worsening of the Covid.