{"id":497981,"date":"2025-10-14T05:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/497981\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:25:16","slug":"young-man-21-shot-after-comments-about-killers-girlfriend-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/497981\/","title":{"rendered":"Young man, 21, shot \u2018after comments about killer\u2019s girlfriend\u2019 | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young man was killed after being shot in the head after he allegedly made offensive remarks about the girlfriend of the shooter a few months earlier. Paolo Taormina, 21, was murdered<\/a> at around 3am on Sunday (12 October) outside the venue O Scruscio – owned by his parents – where he bartended at, in front of dozens of young people.<\/p>\n

The suspect Gaetano Maranzano, 28, reportedly did not resist when he was arrested at his partner’s home just hours after the brutal killing<\/a>. Maranzano allegedly claimed he had argued with Mr Taormina earlier this year over comments he had made about his girlfriend. On the night of the incident, the 21-year-old was trying to break up a fight between a group of boys when the two crossed paths again.<\/p>\n

One table was reportedly beating a teenager from another group when the victim intervened to calm things down.<\/p>\n

Amid the chaos, Maranzano allegedly pulled out an illegally owned 9mm pistol and shot Mr Taormina in the head in Palermo, Italy, NeedToKnow reported.<\/p>\n

“About 10 of them were beating up a kid,” an anonymous witness told local media. “Paolo came out and told them to stop and move away because they were trying to work.<\/p>\n

“It seemed over – then one of them shot him at point-blank range.”<\/p>\n

Mr Taormina’s mother, Fabiola Galioto, was reportedly inside the bar at the time of the incident and witnessed Maranzano fire the gun at her son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He died in her arms moments after he was shot. “His heart was still beating; I could hear him breathing,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Taormina was studying in the US, yet had returned to Sicily a few months ago. His friends said the victim was polite, kind, and hardworking.<\/p>\n

Maranzano, who is the father of a young child, is reportedly from a neighbourhood in Palermo neighbourhood, and has a criminal record for assault and drug offences.<\/p>\n

The shooter\u2019s own father was previously convicted of attempted murder, it understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An autopsy will be performed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine to determine the cause of death. Police are continuing to investigate the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man was killed after being shot in the head after he allegedly made offensive remarks about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[188,163687,2199,1619,12,163688,163686,163689,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-497981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-gaetano-maranzano","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-palermo-shooting","14":"tag-paolo-taormina","15":"tag-revenge-killing","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115370860661752271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}