Vincenzo Terranova, a 35-year-old Italian-American man, met a violent end on the streets of Manhattan on May 8, 1922. Known as an early organized crime figure, Terranova was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near his home on East 116th Street. The fatal attack was believed to be part of a larger power struggle within the burgeoning Italian-American underworld of New York City.
At the time of his death, Terranova was a prominent figure in the Morello crime family, which would later evolve
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