Ardea shooting

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Ardea shooting
Location	Viale Corona Boreale, Colle Romito, Ardea, Lazio, Italy
Coordinates	41°32′59″N 12°35′03″E / 41.549599°N 12.584055°E / 41.549599; 12.584055Coordinates: 41°32′59″N 12°35′03″E / 41.549599°N 12.584055°E / 41.549599; 12.584055
Date	13 June 2021 ~11:00 am GMT+2
Weapons	7.65mm Beretta 81 pistol
Deaths	4 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	0
Perpetrator	Andrea Pignani

The Ardea shooting was a mass shooting incident that occurred on 13 June 2021, in Colle Romito, Ardea, Lazio, Italy.

Shooting[]

On the morning of 13 June 2021, at about 11:00 am (GMT+2), a man opened fire at a local park located on Via Corona Boreale in Ardea. He targeted random civilians who were passing through the area. A total of three people were shot, all of whom died: an elderly man on a bicycle who was killed at the scene, and two children who died after being admitted to a hospital.^[1][2] A fourth person was also targeted but escaped unharmed. The attacker fled the scene and barricaded himself at his home before committing suicide.

The attacker was identified as 35-year-old Andrea Pignani, a local resident. Pignani suffered from mental health problems, and was known for previous crimes and threats, including one where he threatened his mother with a knife.^[3] The gun used in the shooting was owned by his father, a former security guard, who died months prior to the incident. All the victims were targeted at random and had no connection to the attacker.

In Italy, mass shootings in which random people are targeted are rare, making this shooting one of the deadliest in the country.^[4]

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