Five people were killed and two injured after a morning shooting in Nuoro, Sardinia, when a 52-year-old man opened fire first on family members and then on a neighbour before killing himself, ANSA reported.
The gunman was identified as Roberto Gleboni, an outdoor-works employee from the area. According to the report, he used a legally held 7.65-calibre semi-automatic pistol. The source said the motive was unknown.
The violence began shortly after 7 a.m. in an apartment on Via Ichnusa. Gleboni shot his wife, Giuseppina Massetti, and their daughter Martina. Both died at the scene. He then turned the weapon on his two sons, aged 14 and 10, and on an elderly neighbour, Paolo Sanna.
The 14-year-old was grazed and survived with minor injuries. The 10-year-old and the neighbour were taken to San Francesco hospital in desperate condition, but neither survived. Gleboni then moved to the home of his mother on Via Gonario Pinna, wounded her in the face and finally shot himself in the temple in the kitchen.
By the end of the sequence, the toll stood at five dead: the wife, the daughter, the younger son, the neighbour and Gleboni himself. Two people were injured: the older son and the mother. That final count is important because it shows the attack did not remain contained within one room or one immediate target.
The source also said neighbours had not noticed any warning signs. People around the family described them as close and said they had seen them only days earlier returning from shopping. That detail matters because it frames the shooting as a sudden rupture rather than a conflict that had already become public.
The emergency response was immediate. Sirens rang out across the city, two police helicopters flew overhead and officers, carabinieri, magistrates and a forensic doctor arrived at the two buildings involved. The report shows how quickly a residential neighbourhood became the scene of a mass-casualty investigation.
The sequence of events also matters. The violence moved from the family apartment to the neighbour, then to the mother’s home and finally to the suicide. That progression makes the incident read as a chain of escalating acts rather than one isolated outburst.
By the time police and forensic teams arrived, the apartment block and the second address had become separate scenes in one case. That is part of why the report reads as a shock story as much as a crime story.
What the report does not provide is a motive. It does not say what triggered the shooting or whether investigators had found any prior dispute. It does, however, make clear that those around the family had not heard of serious tensions and that the family appeared ordinary from the outside.
For Nuoro, the result is devastating in its simplicity. A morning that began in an apartment building ended with five deaths, two injuries and a neighbourhood left to process an apparently unanticipated act of violence.
The source record is blunt: wife, daughter, son, neighbour and gunman dead; an older son and a mother wounded. That is the scale of the loss, and it is the only scale the report leaves room for.
