An 82-year-old man was shot dead this evening in his apartment on the seventh floor of an elegant apartment building in via Giulio Romano, in the Porta Romano area of Milan.
According to reports from some witnesses, it would be a single attacker who managed to enter the house by piercing the front door with a chainsaw.
Once inside he hit the old man with a knife and, from the first reliefs, it would also seem with the unusual powered edged weapon, perhaps in the agitated phases of the raid.
However, it will be the autopsy to clarify the causes of death.
The neighbors, alarmed by the noise, called the carabinieri in the evening, while other condominiums alerted the firefighters because they were worried about the smoke coming from the floor.
It is possible that it was caused by the rotor of the blade on the steel.
The action lasted a few minutes, the military of the Radiomobile nucleus found the chainsaw and two kitchen knives on the spot.
The investigators of the investigative unit and of the Porta Monforte company are looking for the killer and in the meantime they are investigating the victim's relational network, which is uncensored and without family ties.
The hypothesis of robbery would already be ruled out, while the possibility that the elderly person knew his attacker becomes more and more concrete.