Two 20-something Rome men who have confessed to shooting by mistake a promising 20-year-old swimmer and paralysing him from the waist down outside a Rome pub Saturday were charged with attempted murder on Thursday.
The men, aged 24 and 25, were charged with shooting Manuel Bortuzzo in Rome's Axa district after prosecutors said there was premeditation.
The men, Lorenzo Marinelli and Daniel Bazzano, face a prison term ranging from seven to 20 years. Prosecutors said the shooting was premeditated because the pair returned to the pub after a scuffle there, bringing with them a pistol they had buried in a field after discovering it by chance about two months ago.
The two told police they had stayed with friends, whose identity they refused to reveal, over the last few days, and also camped out in the open.
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