On October 12, 1979, a male used car dealer named Khaled Daoud, also known as Khaled Fahd Darwish Daoud, met a violent end in Brooklyn, New York. His death was not a random act of violence but a calculated execution carried out by members of the infamous DeMeo Crew, a ruthless faction of the Gambino crime family. Daoud, along with his business associate Ronald Falcaro, was lured to an auto-body shop owned by Freddie DiNome under the pretense of a business deal involving the purchase of excess
inventory.
Once inside the shop, the unsuspecting businessmen were ambushed and brutally murdered. The motive behind the killings was the DeMeo Crew's suspicion that Daoud and Falcaro were cooperating with law enforcement. The crew, led by the notorious Roy DeMeo, was heavily involved in a sophisticated international auto theft ring, and any threat of exposure was dealt with severely. Daoud had reportedly threatened to provide authorities with information about this criminal enterprise, sealing his fate. The execution was carried out by a group that included Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, a duo infamously known as the "Gemini Twins" for their brutal efficiency in carrying out murders for the crew.
The investigation into the murders of Daoud and Falcaro eventually led to significant legal repercussions for the DeMeo Crew. In a 1986 trial that was part of a broader crackdown on organized crime in New York City led by then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, two members of the crew, Henry Borelli and Ronald Ustica, were convicted for their roles in the double homicide. The jury found them guilty after 16 days of deliberation, and they faced life imprisonment. While the trial successfully dismantled a significant portion of the Gambino crime family's operations, the murder charges against Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter resulted in a mistrial due to a deadlocked jury.
