Overview

• Ciro Luongo, 58, was found fatally stabbed inside his home in Melito di Napoli after a domestic dispute.
• Carabinieri located the suspect, Roberto Marchese, in Bacoli at his biological father’s home following a brief flight.
• Authorities brought Marchese to police headquarters, where he gave an account of events, and placed him under formal detention on alleged voluntary homicide.
• Investigations are being conducted jointly by Carabinieri and Polizia under the coordination of the Procura di Napoli Nord as they reconstruct motive and dynamics.
• Local reporting cites a dispute over a parrot that flew away as a possible trigger, a detail investigators have not confirmed, while colleagues and the Questore of Naples expressed condolences for the veteran officer from the Giugliano commissariat.