On the afternoon of August 5, 1993, 31-year-old Michael Ciancaglini was walking in South Philadelphia with associate Joey Merlino around 1:30 p.m. A white car pulled up and two gunmen wearing baseball caps fired 10 to 15 shots from semiautomatic or automatic weapons. Ciancaglini was struck in the chest and lungs and died; Merlino was hit in the buttocks but survived. The getaway car, with New Jersey tags, was later found burning elsewhere in South Philadelphia and the street at the shooting scene was left littered with shell casings.

Ciancaglini, known as Mikey Chang, was a soldier in the Philadelphia crime family and part of a younger faction led by Merlino that was in open conflict with boss John Stanfa. Investigators believed the slaying was retaliation for an earlier shooting in which Michael’s brother, Joseph Ciancaglini Jr., had been shot months earlier but survived. Two men, Philip Colletti and John Veasey, were later identified as the shooters, and Stanfa and others were arrested on racketeering charges in March 1994, but no one was ever specifically convicted for Michael Ciancaglini’s murder and the case remains unsolved.

Are there readers with memories of that August afternoon or information about the shooting that could help clarify what happened?