Shooting in the nightlife a few steps from Piazza Vittorio Veneto: 19 year old dying

First the brawl, then the shooting in front of the nightlife venues, a few steps from Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in Turin: it happened last night and now a 19-year-old boy, of Dominican origins and employee of a club in the area, is fighting between life and death in the Molinette emergency room (apparently, he is in a pharmacological coma). A second young man was also injured in the same firefight, fortunately in less critical conditions: the surgeons operated on him and removed part of his liver.

According to the first reconstructions of the police flying squad, it all started around 1 am in via Matteo Pescatore, a street symbol of Turin's nightlife already at the center of past news episodes linked to weekend excesses (especially the sale of alcohol to minors). A violent fight broke out between two groups of young people but, after the first exchanges of punches and kicks, tempers seemed to have calmed down and the situation had apparently been resolved.

However, around 1.30am, tension exploded again: one of the participants in the brawl left, returned armed with a gun and opened fire on the 19-year-old, hitting him several times. The bullets also hit another person who happened to be nearby.

The shots triggered a general stampede among the customers of the premises overlooking the Po. Police cars and 118 rescuers quickly intervened on the scene, stabilizing the nineteen-year-old before emergency transport to hospital. Investigators are now on the trail of the shooter, who did not act alone but in the company of a group of accomplices, who disappeared in the dark immediately after the shots. To identify those responsible, the images of the numerous surveillance cameras in the area could prove decisive, in addition to the testimonies already collected by investigators in the hours following the wounding.