On a summer afternoon in Brooklyn, New York, on July 1, 1928, Francesco 'Frankie Yale' Ioele, an Italian-American man of 35, was driving his new Lincoln car down 44th Street. Suddenly, another vehicle, a black sedan, pulled up alongside him. A hail of bullets from a shotgun and a Thompson submachine gun erupted from the pursuing car, marking the first time the latter weapon was used in New York City gang warfare. The initial blast from the shotgun struck Yale on the left side of his head, while
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