Donato Zarillo, an Italian man, was killed in New Rochelle, New York, on July 19, 1906.
The little city was settling into the middle of the week when, late on Wednesday night, a violent street confrontation broke out on Washington Street. A brief report described it as a “duel” fought with revolvers, involving Zarillo and several other Italian men.
In the dimness and confusion of the gunfire, the encounter ended abruptly: when it was over, Zarillo was left lying in the street, struck by two bullets.
No names were given for the men who shot him. Instead, the account emphasized the suddenness of it all and the way the surviving gunmen vanished into the night; his assailants, it said, escaped. In the available reporting tied directly to the incident, there are no listed arrests, no identified suspects, and no public details about later charges, trials, or convictions connected to Zarillo’s death.
