Stefano Cirillo, the 21-year-old killed yesterday in San Pietro di Caridà, a town in the Reggio Calabria area bordering the Province of Vibo Valentia, was the victim of an ambush.
According to the reconstruction made by the Carabinieri, the young man was returning home on foot in the Corruttò district, in the Monsoreto hamlet of San Pietro di Caridà, when someone fired several gunshots at him, one of which hit him in the head, killing him instantly.
With that of Cirillo, in fact, there are three crimes committed in the last two years - in addition to an attempted murder - in the small town in the hinterland of Reggio or in the immediate vicinity and which saw all young people as victims. On April 8, a 24-year-old worker, Domenico Oppedisano, was murdered, killed by gunshots in the locality of Prateria while he was working.
On September 10, 2022, Alessandro Morfei, 30, was killed by hitmen with a shotgun while working the land on a tractor in the countryside of Dinami, a municipality in the Vibo Valentia area located a few kilometers from San Pietro di Caridà. Alessandro's father, Pietro Morfei, believed to be linked to the local 'ndrangheta family of the same name, was killed in front of a bar in Dinami on July 17, 1998.
Finally, on August 6, again in San Pietro di Caridà, another young man, Pietro Morfei, 20, was wounded in the neck by a shotgun loaded with pellets while he was in the car with his girlfriend, who only suffered minor abrasions.
Now, the Carabinieri investigators are investigating to determine whether the four episodes are linked to each other and whether there is a single matrix behind them that could lead to conflicts in the management of the woods in the area.