Italian police reportedly arrested a boy late on Sunday night in northern Italy on suspicion of killing his siblings and parents after listening to two lines of a Beatles song on repeat.
The 17-year-old boy Identified Riccardo confessed to stabbing the victim to death in the Milan town of Paderno Dugnano. ReportedThe victims were identified as Lorenzo (12 years old), Daniela Albano (49 years old) and Fabio Chiaroni (51 years old). ReportedFabio celebrated his birthday with his family earlier in the evening.
Riccardo initially said in an emergency call that he had killed Daniela and Lorenzo before killing Fabio. The Carabineri reportedly found him bloodied but calm and conscious, and then entered the villa. (RELATED: Police warn neighboring states about triple murder suspect on the run)
A 17-year-old boy from Paderno Dugnano, Italy, has confessed to killing his parents and his 12-year-old brother with a knife after celebrating his father's birthday.
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“I've been thinking about it for a while. It's something that's been bothering me,” the boy reportedly later told the Carabinelli in tears. The boy also reportedly exhibited “fatigue,” and the confession could lead to a psychiatric evaluation.
“I thought I could kill him with one stab but then I realised that wasn't the case,” the suspect reportedly told investigators, adding that he acted quickly to prevent the victim from suffering.
Ricardo also said he had listened intently to The Beatles' 1970 song “The Long and Winding Road” in the days before the murders, particularly the lyrics “So many times I've been alone / So many times I've cried”, and that he wanted to fight in Ukraine.
“The boy understood he had done something irreparable,” Sabrina DiTalanto of the minors prosecutor's office told reporters, according to Il Messero newspaper.
DiTalanto reportedly said Liccardo's motive was unclear.
“I felt oppressed,” Ricardo reportedly told investigators. “I felt like a foreign object in my family. I thought that if I killed them all, I would be free from this discomfort.”
“A minute later I realized, killing them won't free me,” he reportedly added.
According to Il Messagero, Riccardo was being held at the Beccaria juvenile detention center.
Friends of Ricardo were quoted as telling the media that he was a good boy, studied hard, was not a drug user and never argued with anyone, while a neighbour also said the murder was puzzling.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reportedly said the triple murder was “beyond imagination.”
