The new boss of the mafia Frank Cali, head of the Gambino family, was murdered in New York

The leader of the mafia Francesco "Frank" Calichief of the Gambino familyHe was shot Wednesday night outside his home in New York, police said.

Cali, 53, was shot six times in the chest around 9:20 pm local time. According to reports, he was also shot by the van driven by his alleged killers.

The mafia leader was transferred to Staten Island University Hospital, where they declared him dead.

The event occurred in front of Cali's house in the neighborhood Todt Hill of Staten Island, known for the influence of gangsters.

The Gambino family, one of five people who make up the Sicilian mafia in New York, has been considered the largest criminal organization in the United States dedicated to all types of criminal activities up to his fall of grace in the 1990s as a result of state coups of the authorities. .

The murder of Cali is the first in decades of a mafia leader in New York and the one with the highest profile in the Gambino family since 1985ohn Gotti order to kill the leader of the time Paul Castellano take the power of the organization.

Gotti was arrested at the end of 1990 with the help of his second in command, Salvatore Gravano, with the FBI, a relationship that would cause the fall of several mafia leaders and that the Gambino family would have lost much of its power. Gotti died in prison in 2002.

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.

The American and Italian authorities considered him a member of the Cosa Nostra and as ambbadador to New York's mafia families from Sicily.