Felix Little Felix Bocchino, 72, was ambushed and fatally shot multiple times as he got into his car in South Philadelphia on the morning of January 29, 1992. He had begun the day by walking his dog and getting the morning paper; the attack left him slumped at the wheel. The killing was not a robbery but was described as a message within the city’s criminal underworld.

Bocchino was a longtime Philadelphia mob capo recently put in charge of collecting street taxes in Northeast Philadelphia by then-boss John Stanfa, and Stanfa reportedly planned to make Bocchino underboss. That promotion put him at odds with a younger faction led by Joseph Skinny Joey Merlino, who disputed Stanfa’s leadership and refused to pay the demanded tribute. Reports say imprisoned Ralph Natale, aligned with Merlino, ordered the hit, and later testimony identified Steven Mazzone as the triggerman.

Investigators from the Philadelphia police and the FBI opened a high-profile probe, but no arrests were made at the time. What questions remain about Bocchino’s killing or witnesses who might have seen the ambush?