Overview

• Sixty-four-year-old merchant Davide Gorla was fatally stabbed in his luxury stationery store in central Busto Arsizio on June 25.
• Police arrested a 50-year-old tenant who knew the victim after surveillance footage captured him fleeing the scene and changing his bloodstained shirt.
• During a nighttime interrogation at the Busto Arsizio police station, the suspect denied any involvement in the killing.
• Investigators have not yet recovered the murder weapon and are probing a personal dispute as the likely motive rather than robbery.
• Local officials suspended all upcoming cultural and public events in a gesture of mourning after the shock of the murder.