Police arrested a 33-year-old man who allegedly shot dead his 28-year-old wife near the southern Italian city of Naples on Wednesday after she left him.
Carmine d'Aponte shot Stefania Formicola in the stomach after calling for at her father's home and forcing her to get into his car beside him, reports said.
He then called emergency services and waited for them to arrive but Formicola was pronounced dead at the scene.
D'Aponte had first threatened to kill his father-in-law but Formicola reportedly cried: "You'll have to kill me first, " local daily Il Mattino reported.
Formicola had recently left the marital home and had taken the couple's two young children to live with her at her father's apartment in a Sant'Antimo, some 20 kilometres north of Naples, the daily said.
She had reported her husband to police five times for domestic violence.
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