There are plenty of ways to pay off an underworld debt. It can be as simple as sitting beside someone on a crowded patio, watching a soccer game.
It can be as simple as sitting beside someone on a crowded patio, watching a soccer game — useful if you’re sitting beside a target for an out-of-town hit man.
Immediately after the Raposo hit, Wolfpack leader Rabih Alkhalil celebrated in an encrypted email to Wiwchar:I had the whole construction uniform on…Wiwchar also wounded Patriarca, and a police source says he thinks that was by accident. Raposo had been a close friend of popular former Canadian boxing champion and Montreal mob enforcer Eddie Melo, who was murdered in 2001 after leaving a coffee shop in a Mississauga strip mall.
Those wiretaps were part of the mid-2000s Colisée probe into the Montreal-based crime family of Vito Rizzuto, who has since died of natural causes. “I believe this was targeted and someone was waiting for him to come home,” Det. Sgt. Joyce Shertzer of the homicide squad said shortly after the murder.