Motive for the double murder would be a feud between the Lo Russo clan and a splinter group of the same clan. Sabatino was the son of Ettore, a former "boss" (about seven years ago he began to associate with the law) and Corrado belong to a fringe that has come off the core of Lo Russo to acquire autonomy in the management of extortion in the Chiaiano area. It is likely, according to investigators, the two have been lured into a trap. Investigators rule out the hypothesis that the killers may have been a Licciardi clan commando, enemy of Lo Russo.