Italian junior skeet champion killed in hunting accident

[Green_Canoe]

What a tragedy. Condolences to his family and friends.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... omach.html


Italian article:
https://www.blitzquotidiano.it/cronaca- ... a-3441752/

The translation of the Italian article I was given:

Cristian Ghilli, the young world skeet champion , tragically died during a hunting trip with friends. In fact, the athlete fell, a shot was fired and died after several hours of agony.

Cristian Ghilli died during a hunting trip with friends, there will be an autopsy
There will be an autopsy on the body of Cristian Ghilli , the 19 year old world junior skeet champion, who died last night during a desperate surgery in the hospital to try to stop the massive bleeding triggered by an accidentally shot from his rifle at the end. of a hunting trip with some friends in the woods of Montecatini Val di Cecina (Pisa).

The dynamics of the accident, however, are clear and can be traced back to a tragic fatality. According to reports to the carabinieri by his hunting companions, the young man, at the end of the hunt, was shot in the abdomen while he was collecting the shells on the ground and after having tripped over a log that made him lose his balance.

Cristian Ghilli underwent an emergency operation in Cecina but there was nothing to be done
The blow reached the abdomen causing a serious hemorrhage and Ghilli was transported in red code to the nearby hospital in Cecina (Livorno), where the doctors attempted an operation to save his life, but without succeeding. Ghilli, originally from Ponteginori (Pisa), was a promising Italian clay pigeon shooting and reigning world champion in junior teams (title won in October).

Hundreds of messages of condolence arrived on his Facebook page but also from the Italian sports authorities. The Italian skeet shooting federation with president Luciano Rossi, wrote in a message, "clings to the family of Cristian Ghilli, a young Tuscan promising Italian skeet who tragically died in an accident a few hours ago: the young skeet player in October last year he became World Champion in teams and in the Mixed Team, accompanying the gold with a third individual place in the World Championship in Lima, Peru., while in May he won gold in the individual, team and Mixed team competition in the Osjiek European Championship in Croatia ”.

The Confederation of Tuscan hunters recalls that the passion for hunting was transmitted to the young athlete from his grandfather, the historic manager of the Federcaccia di Ponteginori:

"Today - reads a note - the old friends, his association at every level and in particular the president of Federcaccia Toscana, Marco Salvadori, the president of Federcaccia Pisa, Alfonso Papa, the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters and the whole world hunting and skeet shooting, mourn the loss of a great friend, a champion, a young man, who loved hunting and its values ​​". Condolence was also expressed by the League's MEP Susanna Ceccardi, who in a post on Facebook remembers Ghilli "as a true champion".

[conradin]

Che strano. :(

[jhmartin]

Absolutely tragic.
Prayers for his family & friends.