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Leonardo Nardo Coppola

Case from Brooklyn, NY dated Jul 12, 1979

Victim Details

Leonardo Nardo Coppola

Male

White / Caucasian

Brooklyn

NY

1979-07-12

40

Leonardo

Nardo Coppola

07/21/2026

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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 pa ...
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  • Medium: Carmine Galante’s Last Lunch
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1979/07/13/underworld-chief-galante-2-others-slain/f1d464db-da64-4700-86f9-3e27af1c8c45/
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