Paola Romano, 58, was killed in the entrance hall of her home in Rome's eastern suburbs yesterday morning when three gunshots exploded in rapid succession from close range, striking her in the head. The victim's coworker was the one who opened fire with his service gun. The same weapon that, after leaving the scene of the crime, the murderer turned against himself and killed himself. When the police discovered him, now a corpse, he was sitting in his car in a street about 200 meters from the woman's house. Romano, originally from Marzano Appio in Caserta, had been living in Rome's San Basilio district for over 20 years and worked in the Chamber of Deputies' security district. The victim was married to an inspector from the Sant'Ippolito police station and the mother of a 22-year-old police officer. Paola Romano and her colleague would have had a relationship for some time, so the investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a passionate motive at this time.
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