Verona Chief Prosecutor said Saturday
that it is likely that a 15-year-old boy who is in a critical
condition in hospital with head injuries was shot on Friday by
his 58-year-old mother, who then committed suicide at the family
home in the town of Lavagno.
"The most most credible circumstantial hypothesis at the moment
is that the mother attempted to murder the boy and then
committed suicide," said Prosecutor Raffaele Tito.
"The woman had had health problems for some time for some time".
Investigators questioned the father but he is not suspected of
any wrongdoing.
It had initially been reported that the father had been detained
in relation to the case.
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