Louis “Irish Louie” DeLuca, 51, male of Italian and Irish descent, was a South Philadelphia bookmaker whose long ties to the city’s underworld ended violently just after midnight on May 24, 1990. He was ambushed while parking his brown Cadillac near his home; windows were blown out by gunfire, and he was struck four times. Police recovered a. 32-caliber automatic and a. 38-caliber revolver at the scene. He was rushed to Methodist Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:38 a.m., a killing that im
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