Cosa Nostra News

UPDATED SATURDAY MORNING  A reputed associate of the Bonanno crime family — whose son was shot multiple times in an attempted hit this past July  — was shot and killed today (October 4) at around 4:45 p.m. at a McDonald’s drive thru in the Bronx. Crime scene from today's gang land shooting Sylvester Zottola, 71, a Bonanno crime family associate, was shot in the head, chest, and shoulder while waiting in his SUV for a cup of coffee at the drive-through window. In what one law enforcement official described as a "Mafia-style assassination," Zottola was shot once in the head and four times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A “massive” police investigation has commenced. The McDonald’s parking lot has crime scene tape across it, and dozens of law enforcement investigators and other personnel were seen there. The still-at-large suspect reportedly walked up on the victim while he was ordering food. The suspect fired multiple shots into the driv...

UPDATED The Salvatore (Sally Daz) Zottola shooting may actually be the second attempted gangland hit caught on tape; the first, in March 1993, was the attempted murder of Joey Chang , then-34, early one morning in the coffee shop he owned, the Warfield Breakfast & Luncheon Express, in Philadelphia. Shooter leaped out of car, ran up to Sally Daz and fired at point blank range. The FBI had mounted a surveillance camera on the telephone pole across from the diner. Chang was shot during the Merlino-Stanfa war. Joey Chang was seriously wounded but he too survived, though partially paralyzed and with nerve damage that caused him to retire from Cosa Nostra. NYPD officials have labeled the July 11 attempted murder of Salvatore (Sally Daz) Zottola as a botched gangland hit. He was shot around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. In a surveillance clip, below, a red Nissan can be seen driving past Zottola's vehicle and pulling to a h...