At that point, it started as a fight between boys and quickly turned into a feud where De Angelis got the worst of it.
Even when the event in which he intervened apparently represented a simple quarrel between kids, there was no need to rest assured. A quarrel between teenagers in a park that was also very popular with several groups of kids it became a tragedy. Intervening during the argument cost 25-year-old Marcello De Angelis a worst-case scenario.
The dispute, in fact, quickly turned into a homocide. The victim, only 25 years old, and was the uncle of one of the young people involved in the dispute at the park. A former amateur footballer for Borghesiana and a lift operator for several years, De Angelis lost his life precisely because he intervened in the dispute.
What happened at the park was a real escalation of violence born from a trivial disagreement between two boys. The protagonists are all very young, the victim, however, is the older person, the adult, so to speak.
One of the young people, 15 years old, was spending the evening with friends in an area of the Alessandrino neighborhood, on the eastern outskirts of Rome. At a certain point he is targeted by someone close to his age, another 17-year-old. The latter began to insult him, then physically attacked him, while the rest of the group watched, some remaining in front of the argument, immortalizing the scene with their phones. The cause of the argument would have been the dispute over a girl.
The 15-year-old, humiliated and also a little battered, returns home and tells his mother, Jessica, and his uncle Marcello what happened. De Angelis, however, decides to intervene in this dispute. She leaves the house with her nephew and confronts the attacker who, without telling her, throws a gun threat: “Tonight I’ll have you all killed,” he allegedly told the two.
At that point the 17 year old involves his father and uncles, once he reaches his home. Armed with knives and clubs, they head towards the residence in via Vincenzo Tineo, determined to carry out a violent action, a “revenge”. What started out as a fight between kids, at that point, quickly turns into one feud between adults.
Manolo Colecchia, father of the 17 year old, then goes to the other family’s house and here Jessica and Marcello go down to the ground floor. But everything is consumed in an instant. Colecchia tries to stab Jessica, who manages to save herself in the entrance hall, then lashes out at Marcello, inflicting a stabbed fatal. Despite the prompt intervention of the emergency services, Marcello died shortly afterwards in hospital. Colecchia was arrested shortly after the murder, thanks to the images taken by the building’s surveillance cameras.
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