R.I.P. Nick Rizzuto

[viper37]

Nick Rizzuto gunned down in Montreal

  The son of Canada's most powerful mobster has apparently been gunned down.
There are reports that Nick Rizzuto — son of Vito Rizzuto, the so-called head of Canada's Mafia — has been killed.
The shooting occurred in broad daylight in view of several terrified witnesses.
They describe a gangland-style killing in one of the grittier parts of the city's NDG district.
A 42-year-old man was standing near a black Mercedes sedan when at least one gunman approached and fired several shots.
The street was bustling with lunch-hour traffic.
Witnesses say the man crumpled into the fresh snow, and that police soon arrived to pick him up and take him to hospital.
He was pronounced dead and became the city's 31st homicide victim this year
Police are not confirming rumours the killing involves a member of the Rizzuto family.
But Radio-Canada — the French-language CBC — says the victim is Vito Rizzuto's son, Nick.
Vito Rizzuto is in a medium-security prison in Colorado, serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering, relating to three underworld murders in Brooklyn in 1981.

For a couple of months now, a lot of Italian Cafes in Montreal have been firebombed.  Minimal damages, usually, but still, fire damage, kinda like a warning of some sort.
I wonder if this is related...  I doubt the street gangs would have the guts to pull something like this.  Sounds more like an internal job.

Nick's father Vito, is the one who presumably killed 3 mafia boss (capo, actually, I think) from the Bonnano family in New York in 1981.

Vito's true mafia baptism occurred in 1981 when a factional tug-of-war       within the Bonnano family in New York led to the decision to murder three       dissident captains. A request went out to Montreal for hit men, and Vito       was dispatched as a shooter. On the night of May 5, 1981, the three mob       captains showed up at a hangout in Brooklyn, where gunmen immediately jumped       out of a closet and opened fire. The first person charging from the closet       was Vito Rizzuto.

So, Vito is in jail and his son is now dead. Power vacuum.  Gang war profiling.  Retaliation to come, or more purge.

[Grey Fox]

Great. Now we get more Gangs to fill the void. Mom Boucher, how we miss thee.

[Razgovory]

Probably unrelated to any gang activity.  Likely just a mugging gone wrong.

[Grey Fox]

Yeah, mobsters get robbed quit often.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Yeah, mobsters get robbed quit often.

What a world we live in where innocent mob leaders get robbed and gunned down in broad daylight.

[Neil]

This just goes to show how racist Quebec society is.  The fact that white people are still important in crime demonstrates that Quebec society just isn't inclusive to criminal minorities like Asians or Africans.

[Josephus]

Another guy I never heard of kicked the bucket. This is becoming routine now.

[Drakken]

Another guy I never heard of kicked the bucket. This is becoming routine now.

The American Cosa Nostra has become very boring since John Gotti died.