Ardea massacre, “killer subjected to psychiatric counseling”

“No contact has emerged between the murderer and his victims, nor any relationship of acquaintance between them.” This is what we read in a joint note from the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Rome and the Prosecutor of Velletri regarding what happened yesterday in Ardea, where a man, Andrea Pignani, killed two children and an elderly person and then took off his life. “Regarding the murderer, Andrea Pignani, there is only a dispute within the family, which occurred with his mother on 11 May 2020, which required the intervention of a Carabinieri patrol at their home in Viale Colle Romito”. Read also Following this, the man was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Department of the New Hospital of the Castelli di Ariccia (RM) “where he arrived voluntarily in the same afternoon for ‘psychomotor agitation’ with a blue code, and was subjected to psychiatric counseling, following which he was discharged the next morning with a diagnosis of ‘state of agitation – urgent deferrable patient who needs treatment that is not immediate He entrusts himself to his father’ “.” From the investigations carried out there are no further complaints or reports against him – the investigators explain – neither that the murderer was being treated for psychiatric pathologies nor that he was in possession of medical certification issued by health facilities. The investigation activities carried out by the Carabinieri of Frascati and Anzio, under the direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office Republic of Velletri, continue, also in order to verify any liability in relation to the unlawful dete ntion of the firearm, for which no complaint is filed “. Regarding the raid on the house in Pignani where the man had barricaded himself after killing the two children and the elderly, the investigators explain that around at 15.30 the Gis dei Carabinieri broke into the house, finding the man in the bedroom, on the second floor, a corpse, with a Beretta mod. 81 cal. 7.65, “probably the same one used shortly before to kill the three victims”.