On a summer afternoon in the Bronx, Frank Scalice, a 64-year-old Italian-American man, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was June 17, 1957, and the powerful mobster had just made a small purchase of peaches and lettuce at a bustling vegetable market on Arthur Avenue. As he was putting the change back into his pocket, two men with rolled-up sleeves brushed past the shop owner, raised their weapons, and opened fire. The sudden eruption of violence left Scalice dead on the side
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