Overview

• The 13-year-old was stabbed on May 16 in Milan’s Porta Venezia area while attempting to buy drugs and had been in intensive care at Fatebenefratelli hospital.
• A 26-year-old Cuban man was arrested the night after the attack in Pozzuolo Martesana and is held in San Vittore prison under a judge’s pretrial detention order.
• Investigators recovered the 20-centimeter knife used in the stabbing from a field in Pozzuolo Martesana as part of the ongoing probe.
• A Rottweiler found in the victim’s car was also stabbed during the incident and later died at a veterinary clinic.
• Public prosecutor Francesca Crupi confirmed she will amend the charge to voluntary manslaughter now that the boy has succumbed to his injuries.