Shock after shooting in Naples hospital
Assailant failed to hit intended target

(ANSA) - Naples, May 17 - A young gunman wearing a helmet opened fire in the courtyard of Naples' Vecchio Pellegrini hospital overnight, sources said on Friday.
The intended target appears to have been a 22-year-old man from the city's Arenella who had gone to the hospital with leg injuries caused by a firearm shortly before the attack.
The shots fired in the hospital, however, failed to hit the target, the sources said.