Overview

• The fatal stabbing occurred just before 8 p.m. Sunday in the first-floor apartment on Via Vittorio Veneto in Luino where the victim was visiting his ex-wife.
• The victim and his sons had traveled from Lugano to spend the day with their mother, underscoring tensions after her separation from their father.
• After the attack, 25-year-old Francesco Rezzonico fled and was detained by Carabinieri near the scene later that night.
• Investigators seized the kitchen knife used in the attack and have launched forensic tests on the weapon.
• Authorities plan to interview the suspect’s mother and brother, who witnessed the stabbing and whose intervention briefly halted the assault.