The new boss of the mafia, Frank Cali, was shot in New York

Frank, 53, was shot six times in the chest of his neighborhood home. Todt Hill of Staten Island. Then, his body was crushed by the van driven by the attackers.

The Italian mafia in New York is made up of five families. One of them is the Gambino, considered the most important until 1990when federal authorities began to persecute them.

Since 1985, a mafia leader in the United States has not been murdered. That year, the head of the Gambino family, Paul Castellano was shot in a restaurant in Manhattan on behalf of John Gotti, his second and successor.