A capo of the Italian mafia in New York was shot in the door of his house

The leader of the mafia Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, head of the Gambino family, was beaten down this Wednesday evening at the door of his house in New York, according to the police.

Cali, 53 years old He received six shots at the chest at approximately 9:20 pm in the Todt Hill area of ​​Staten Island and, according to some reports, was also reportedly hit by the van driven by his alleged killers.

The mafia leader was transferred to the Staten Island University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

According to the American press, it is first murder of a boss of the Italian mafia in New York in 34 yearssince the death of Paul Castellano – another head of the Gambino family – in 1985, under the orders of gangster John Gotti, who wanted to take power in the organization.

The Gambino family, one of the five that make up the Sicilian mafia in New York with the Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno, has come to be regarded as the largest criminal organization in the United States dedicated to all types of criminal activities until his fall of grace in the 1990s by the coups d'etat.

From Sicilian parents in Palermo, Cali was born in New York in 1965 and was involved at an early age in the New York Mafia.

Between 2008 and 2009, he spent 10 months in prison for extortion. Cali took control of the organization in 2015. According to the newspaper New York PostI was a boss "Very discreet, old school" which brought several mobsters from Italy and focused on the Heroin and oxycodone trafficking .

The US and Italian authorities considered him a member of the Cosa Nostra and an ambbadador to New York mafia families in Sicily.