The 53-year-old "Francesco Calle", once the head of the mafia "Gambino Family", who once wreaked havoc in New York and throughout the United States, lived in Staten Island, a small island south of New York, looking at the Statue of Liberty. Staten Island is also the place where the Mafia god Don Corleone lived and died in the film <The Godfather>.

By the way, last Wednesday at about 9:20, six gunshots rang in front of the quiet hill escape mansion here. The gunman was Francis Calle, the head of the Gambino family. He was transferred to the 911 ambulance at the University Hospital emergency room, but soon died.

One local media reported that a blue pick-up truck, which seems to be driven by a suspect who shot a gun, even caught a call.

The Gambino Family was once the strongest mafia organization throughout the United States, but was hit in the late 1980s by a war on crime by the New York City authorities. Francis Calleigh is reportedly linked to Sicilian mafia organization Inselilo through marriage.

US media reported that the death of a heavy-handed mafia leader in the United States was the first time in 34 years since 1985. In 1985, Paul Castellano, the head of the Gambino family, was shot and killed in front of a famous steak house in the center of Manhattan.

John Gotti, who was behind the Castella no Killer, is a successor to the Gambino family. He was arrested in 1992 and died of cancer in prison at the age of 61 in 2002.

Francis Callee was once called "the New York Mafia" as it emerged in the aftermath of the confusion, but also failed to end the miserable end.

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