Overview

• A late-night shooting on July 16 in Via Machiavelli’s Case-parcheggio housing area left 45-year-old Carmelo Nigro dead and three others wounded.
• Victim Nigro had recently been released from house arrest following his arrest in December’s Operation Leon anti-drug sweep.
• Investigators arrested 36-year-old Michele Caforio, brother of one of the injured, on orders from DDA prosecutors Salvatore Colella and Milto Stefano De Nozza.
• Authorities are probing a drug-trafficking turf war between the Nigro and Caforio families over control of local sales areas.
• Forensic agents from the Taranto Squadra Mobile recovered around ten shell casings at the scene and are analyzing them for further leads.