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Dino Bravo, born Adolfo Bresciano, was a 44-year-old former professional wrestler living with his wife and young daughter in the Vimont area of Laval when he was shot dead in March 1993. On the night of March 10, his wife returned home after midnight and found him in an armchair in the living room, dead of multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators and later reporting focused heavily on alleged ties to Montreal organized crime and an extensive cigarette-smuggling network active in Quebec at the time. Cash, contraband cigarettes and documents linked to smuggling were reported found at his residence, and some accounts say he handled collections and warehousing activity connected to cross-border trafficking.

The attack’s details — repeated close-range shots, use of two calibres and no apparent theft — have kept the view that he was deliberately targeted. No publicly reported arrest, prosecution or conviction for his murder has been made, and no individual has been publicly identified as the killer. Does anyone have information about Bravo’s activities in Laval or the cigarette-smuggling networks of that period?