Reputed high-ranking Montreal Mafia member killed in Laval1:38Sollecito, 67, was shot in his car and pronounced dead at the hospital. Sollecito's son, Stefano, is alleged to be the head of the Montreal Mafia along with the late Vito Rizzuto's son, Leonardo. Rocco Sollecito, a reputed high-ranking member of the Rizzuto crime family, has been killed in a daytime shooting in Laval, sources tell Radio-Canada, signalling another blow to one of Canada's most powerful Mafia families. ​Leonardo's father, Vito Rizzuto, longtime patriarch of the Montreal Mafia, died of natural causes in 2013. The decline of an empireSollecito's shooting comes three months after Lorenzo (Skunk) Giordano, identified as a lieutenant in the Montreal Mafia, was killed in a parking lot in the Chomedey area of Laval.

Source: CBC News May 27, 2016 08:50 UTC