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Source: thestar.com

Mafia godfather Nicolo Rizzuto shot and killed in his home
Wed Nov 10 2010
Peter Edwards Staff Reporter

Reports from Montreal say Nicolo (Nick) Rizzuto was shot Wednesday night. Here he is seen walking out of a church following his grandson Nick Rizzuto's funeral in Montreal on Jan. 2, 2010.
Christine Muschi/REUTERS FILE PHOTO)

Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, a great-grandfather who dressed the role of a Mafia godfather with crisply tailored suits and wide fedora hats, died as a mobster on Wednesday when he was gunned down in his Montreal mansion.

“He was the last of the real godfathers,” said Antonio Nicaso, a GTA expert on the underworld who has written several books on the Mafia.

“He was a combination of old and new, the last true godfather who was still alive and outside jail,” Nicaso said.

It’s the latest in a string of assassinations against the crime family of Vito Rizzuto, a mob boss with strong connections to the Greater Toronto Area, who’s now in an American prison.

The bloodshed jolted even people accustomed to the violence of the underworld.

“I’m shocked,” said Normand Brisebois, a former Montreal Mafia and biker enforcer, in an interview with The Toronto Star.

Brisebois said that Nicolo Rizzuto acted like all he wanted to do was play cards and play with his great-granchildren, but still wielded power in the underworld.

“I think he was still the guy,” Brisebois said.

Nicolo Rizzuto’s son Vito, 64, is due to be released from prison in the summer of 2012, after being imprisoned for his role in a New York triple murder in 1982 for the Bonanno crime family.

Nicolo Rizzuto had sought to retire from the underworld, but was forced back into a controlling role by massive imprisonments and shootings against his family.