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The Little Boy Mowed Down By The Mafia

Mob Tragedy

Tiny Domenico Petruzzelli got only three years of life on earth before mafia hitmen riddled his body with bullets this week, in an attack that also killed his mother and her boyfriend.

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While three-year-old Domenico Petruzzelli was being riddled with bullets in the front seat of a car next to his 30-year-old mother, Carla Maria Fornari, and her 44-year-old boyfriend, Cosimo Orlando, his older brothers were “playing dead,” huddled down in the back seat.

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