2nd Mob Hit This Month? It's Getting Weird: Luchese-Linked Loanshark Killed Friday In Brooklyn
UPDATED A 77-year-old loan shark with ties to the Luchese crime family was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, home on Friday. Vincent Zito lived here with son and grandson. ( NYDN ) Vincent Zito had been shot in the back of the head execution style, and was found inside his three-story Sheepshead Bay home at about 3:15 p.m. on Friday. Earlier this month, Sylvester Zottola, 71, a Bonanno crime family associate, was shot to death while waiting in his SUV for a cup of coffee at a McDonald's drive-through window in the Bronx. Zito's grandson Joseph, who lives at the address with Zito and Zito’s son, found the body after he came home from school. Zito was found face up on the floor next to the firearm that was used to kill him. Zito is survived by his older brother Anthony, 82 - who was locked up for extortion in 1971. Initially, it was believed Zito may have taken his own life, but the entry wound was in the...