Leonardo "Nardo" Coppola, a reputed drug dealer and close associate of Carmine Galante, was killed on July 12, 1979, in a notorious gangland execution. The incident took place at Joe & Mary's Italian Restaurant on Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. On that fateful afternoon, Coppola was dining with Galante, the boss of the Bonanno crime family, and Giuseppe Turano, an adviser to Galante's crime family. The trio was ambushed by five ski-masked gunmen who stormed the restaurant and opened
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