The person who killed Montreal mafia lieutenant Lorenzo Giordano on March 1, 2016 in Laval held his gun a few centimeters from his victim’s head.
Posted at 4:44 p.m.
This is what emerges from the testimony of a retired crime scene technician from the Sûreté du Québec who testified on Wednesday on day 2 of the trial of Dominico Scarfo.
PHOTO: SURETE DU QUEBEC
The accused Dominico Scarfo
The latter, 49, is accused of having plotted the murder and of having killed Giordano and of having done the same with another lieutenant of the Sicilian clan, Rocco Sollecito, on May 27, 2016, on the orders of the Calabrian Salvatore Scoppa.
Scarfo’s jury trial is scheduled to last three months and is taking place at the Gouin Judicial Service Center in Montreal.
On the day of Giordano’s murder in the parking lot of Carrefour Multisports de Laval, police officer Caroline Jean, who was still active in 2016, went to the scene of the crime to photograph the scene, the vehicle in which the victim had just arrived. victim and the body of the mobster.
She observed five projectile impacts in the victim’s body, including one near the bone of the right cheek, another at the base of the scalp and two in the neck, under the ear.
“There is presence of black around these two holes. It’s smoke from the shots fired. So it was done very closely, ”explained Mr.me Jean during his very precise testimony.
The former police officer also underlined the presence of a reddish stain, which could be similar to blood, detected at the end of the barrel of a revolver abandoned on the spot by the assassin.
PHOTO FILED IN COURT
The revolver was abandoned by the killer and was partly frozen in ice when the police seized it.
It was a five-shot revolver. The cylinder was filled and the five casings, bearing the inscription Winchester 38 special, had all been hit.
covered in blood
Lorenzo Giordano was a passenger in a gray Kia Sportage SUV driven by a woman and the vehicle had just pulled into the sports center parking lot around 8:30 a.m. on the morning of March 1, 2016 when the mobster was shot dead.
When he heard gunshots, a man, who was in an office on 2and floor of the Carrefour Multisports, rushed to the window overlooking the parking lot and saw the suspect throw the weapon and flee on foot.
On Wednesday, a witness said the woman got out of the car in a panic, screaming and covered in blood.
We learned Thursday that a bullet pierced her coat and left a bruise on her back.
Lorenzo Giordano, who was on parole at the time he was murdered, wore a GPS tracking beacon on his ankle, so authorities could track his whereabouts. He also had a membership card from the sports center in front of which he was killed.
In his personal belongings, the police found a document from Drummond Penitentiary with a list of conditions that he had to respect, several bank cards, a chain with a pendant in the shape of a crucifix and a Vatican key ring.
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