Notorious Giovani Lauriano Gunned Down

Well-known street man Giovani Lauriano, 32, became one of the latest victims on the list of murder statistics for 2010 when he was shot at close range on the Western Highway while he was travelling to his house in Hattieville after socializing.

His attacker apparently trailed Lauriano in another car and opened fired on him just as he was passing by a feeder road near mile 17.  After his attackers fired the first bullet which tore through his vehicle, Lauriano lost control of the wheel and ran off the road before making his way out. It appeared that Lauriano, or Nose as he was more commonly known, got out of the bullet-riddled car he occupied and tried to run for help.  But he never made it very far.

That was when the gunmen took the opportunity to finish the mission.

Although family and close friends describe Lauriano as a mannerly young man, those who keep up with the news know that he was not exactly a prime candidate for citizen of the year.  Over the course of his colourful life, this street figure had had run-ins with the law numerous times, the most recent of which was only this year when he appeared in Court on a slew of offences.  Prior to that, Lauriano had faced charges as serious as attempted murder and firearm offences.

This father of one had recently tried to better his life when he walked down the aisle little over a year ago and settled down in Hattieville with his wife and daughter.  But his effort to turn over a new leaf and live a long life was not part of the script for his destiny.  As if it was designed by fate itself to the words ‘live by the gun and die by the gun’, Lauriano suffered mutiple gunshots to the head and beside his body Police discovered a nine mm weapon.  An arrest is yet to be made for his killing.

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