Leonardo �Nardo� Coppola, a 40-year-old man, died on July 12, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York, when a midday meal turned into a carefully staged execution at Joe & Mary�s Italian-American Restaurant on Knickerbocker Avenue. He was there in the orbit of Carmine �Lilo� Galante, and when the violence came it did not come as a chaotic barroom eruption, but as something colder: gunmen arriving with purpose, moving straight toward their targets, and firing at close range on the restaurant�s patio. Coppola
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