Gambino crime boss Frank Cali, 53, is shot dead outside his Staten Island family home and then run over by a blue pickup truck in the first major hit on a NYC Mafia don in more than 30 years
- Frank Cali, 53, was killed in front of his Staten Island home at 9.15pm Wednesday
- Police sources told DailyMail.com Cali was shot six times in the torso
- He was then reportedly run over by a blue pickup truck that fled the scene
- No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing
Gambino crime family boss Francesco ‘Franky Boy’ Cali has died after being shot six times and run over by a pickup truck in front of his home in Staten Island, authorities confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Police responding to a 911 call about an assault in progress at around 9.15pm Wednesday arrived to find 53-year-old Cali with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital soon after.
No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing as police search for a blue pickup truck that fled the gruesome scene after it is believed to have run Cali over.
A police source told DailyMail.com: ‘Cali was home having with his family when this truck pulled up. He was shot outside the home.’
Gambino crime family boss Francesco ‘Franky Boy’ Cali has died after being shot six times and run over by a pickup truck in front of his home in Staten Island on Wednesday night
Cali, a native of Sicily, is married to the niece of Gambino capo John Gambino.
He served on the family’s ruling panel for several years before being promoted to acting boss in 2015, replacing the previous leader Domenico Cefalu, also known as ‘Greaseball’.
The organization reportedly focused its efforts on heroin and Oxycontin trafficking under his leadership.
Among law enforcement officials, Cali was known as a ‘real quiet old-school boss’ – one police source told the New York Post.
He was considered to be a foil of his former boss John Gotti because ‘no one ever sees him’.
Cali only had one criminal conviction, having spent 16 months for a 2008 federal extortion charge in connection with a failed bit to build a NASCAR race track in Staten Island.
Cali’s family home in Staten Island, New York, is seen above