A jealous young man of 24 years is the suspect of the assassination of mafia boss Frank Cali

The head of the New York Police Department, Dermot Shea, identified the detainee as being Anthony Comello, a young man of 24, the details of which are in custody in New Jersey, and against which no charges have yet been laid.

The arrest, which took place in the city of Brick, in neighboring New Jersey, took place three days after the death of Cali, aka "Franky Boy", who had received seven bullets to his chest in front of his home. Staten Island District, shot by a man who was driving a blue truck and crushed his seriously wounded body before fleeing.

"We think we have recovered this vehicle," Shea said at a press conference broadcast live by the media, which helped recover fingerprints still being badyzed.

Shea also claimed that the New York police believed that "it was not an arbitrary act" and confirmed that Mr. Comello "had crossed paths with the police on more than one occasion" , indicating any detainee's police history.

The officer repeatedly insisted that there were still many investigations to be conducted since the incident had occurred just four days ago, and he said that "a lot of tests are still being processed"

In addition, Shea noted that one of the police's priorities was to protect the families of those involved in the event because of the possibility of retaliation, and explained that a lot of police departments are involved. in the case, "too many to list"

Although Shea did not specify any motive for the murder, several police sources badured the local media ABC7 that it is possible for the suspect to have a relationship with a parent of "Franky Boy", which would have required a distance between the two.

City media describe Frank Cali as an old school gangster, more anxious to make money than to make headlines, which often raised doubts as to whether it was really him who was dealing with the dark sons of the five families of the New York Mafia.

Originally from Sicily, he was married to a niece of the Gambino family's chief, John Gambino, and according to the city's media. He managed to reach the top of the organization in 2015, when his predecessor, Domenico Cefalú, a Brooklyn pastry chef who lived with his mother, left his post., who had accepted in 2011, apparently, by his advanced age.

In 2008, he was one of the 77 gangsters detained in Operation Old Bridge, This is the largest operation launched since the 1980s against Cosa Nostra in Italy and the United States and which marked the definitive decline of the organization.

It was impossible to prove that Cali was Gambino's ambbadador to Sicilian gangsters, as the Office of the Prosecutor had supposed, but after pleading guilty to conspiracy, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison and released in 2009.

His death, eleven years later, eclipses New York again, this boasts of having reduced the number of murders to its lowest figure since the 1950s, one of the golden days of the Cosa Nostra.

With information from EFE