Agrigento Man Killed by Aorta Injury: Palmese Roberto Di Falco Had No Hope

A pistol shot, it seems, accidentally cut his heart aorta leaving him no chance. This is how Roberto Di Falco, a 38-year-old merchant from Palma di Montechiaro, was killed in the parking lot of a car dealership in Villaggio Mosè in Agrigento after a dispute with a competitor over a car paid for with bounced checks. This was determined by the autopsy performed by forensic pathologist Alberto Alongi in the mortuary of the San Giovanni di Dio hospital. The expert in forensic medicine, appointed by the Prosecutor’s Office to conduct the autopsy, found abrasions on the palm of the hand of the victim, which appear to be due to the cycling of the gun.

According to the reconstruction made by the Prosecutor’s Office, Lillo Zambuto, the car dealer who had not settled the debt, after being threatened with a 9mm semi-automatic gun, reacted with a personal defense technique, managing to turn the gun towards the thirty-eight-year-old. The chief prosecutor Giovanni Di Leo and the substitute prosecutor Gaspare Bentivegna, in charge of the investigation, after the autopsy, ordered technical investigations on the cell phones and SIM cards used by the three suspects, Angelo Di Falco, 39 years old, brother of the victim, Domenico Avanzato, 36 years old, and Calogero Zarbo, 40 years old, which could prove to be of particular investigative interest in reconstructing movements, messages, and phone calls before, during, and after what would have been a punitive expedition gone wrong.