The argument between Francesco Chimirri and the deputy inspector of the State Police Giuseppe Sortino began near the southern overpass of Crotone which leads onto state road 106. According to the reconstruction carried out by the investigators, Chimirri, on board his Dacia Duster, would have made a risky overtaking, hitting another car, causing the rear-view mirror to break. At that point the two cars stopped, the driver of the damaged car asked Chimirri to compensate him with his insurance and the pizza chef agreed. A circumstance confirmed by the story of one of the victim’s daughters in an audio broadcast on social media according to which, at that point, the policeman who, on his way to Crotone to take duty at the police station, witnessed the scene would have entered the story.
«A policeman got in the way – says the young woman – who spoke furiously and dad gave him a slap. He started hitting and dad hit him too.” From the story we understand that at that point the scene of the story moved to the Lampanaro district, where Chimirri’s parents live. «He started hitting him and dad hit him too – says the girl – Then he took the truncheon and threw it at dad’s head who got angry and hit him and he put out the gun and the he shot in the chest».