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The head of the Gambino family was beaten outside his home in Staten Island on Wednesday night, police sources told The Post.
Frank Cali, 53, was shot by a gunman outside his home in Hilltop Terrace, Todt Hill section, around 9:20 pm, the sources said.
The gunman pumped several bullets into Cali and fled into a blue van, police sources said.
Cali was transported to the University Hospital north of Staten Island and declared dead, sources said.
One 911 caller said he had heard six or seven shots, but it is unclear how many times Cali was hit, police sources said.
No arrests were made immediately and the police were looking for videos and looking for witnesses, police said.
Cali, originally from Sicily, became the de facto godfather of the Gambinos in 2015.
Mafia observers have described him as the opposite of exuberant ex-boss John Gotti, because "no one ever sees him".
"He was a very calm old school leader," a police source told La Poste.
Cali gave his family a new generation of Italian immigrant gangsters and focused on trading heroin and Oxycontin, sources told The Post in September.
He had only one criminal conviction: an extortion charge in 2008 for attempting to shake a trucker working on a proposed NASCAR race track in Staten Island. He was sentenced only 16 months in prison.
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