Boy, 16,arrested for beating businessman with baseball bat

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday night on charges of attempted murder for having attacked last Tuesday with a baseball bat in Cesano Maderno, Brianza, a 60-year-old entrepreneur now hospitalized at the San Gerardo hospital in Monza in a life-threatening condition.
    Investigations have not shown that the attacker and the victim knew each other and the motive is unclear. The Carabinieri identified and arrested the boy late Wednesday evening.
    They reportedly found a spliff and bloody clothes in the boy's apartment in a building he shared with the businessman who was attacked in the garage.
    The boy, who has not got a history of psychiatric issues, was taken to Milan's Beccaria juvenile prison. (ANSA).