On October 12, 1979, used car dealer Khaled Daoud, also known as Khaled Fahd Darwish Daoud, was lured to an auto-body shop in Brooklyn and killed alongside his business associate Ronald Falcaro. They were brought to the shop owned by Freddie DiNome under the pretense of a business deal to buy excess inventory, then ambushed and executed by members of the DeMeo Crew, a faction of the Gambino crime family.

The murders were reportedly precipitated by the crew’s belief that Daoud and Falcaro were cooperating with law enforcement. The execution team included Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, nicknamed the Gemini Twins. The broader investigation into the DeMeo Crew culminated in a 1986 trial that produced convictions for Henry Borelli and Ronald Ustica in the double homicide; charges against Testa and Senter ended in a mistrial when the jury deadlocked.