A real estate developer known for his ties to the Montreal Mafia was shot dead Thursday morning.
Tony
Magi, who survived a brazen rush-hour murder attempt in 2008, was the
victim of Montreal’s first homicide, a well-placed source confirmed to
The Canadian Press.
Tony Magi on Sept. 22, 2010. Magi was known to police and survived an assassination attempt in 2008.
Police
said they received a call at about 11:15 a.m. that an unconscious man
was lying on the ground at the entry to a garage in west-end Montreal’s
Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighbourhood.
Officers who arrived on the
scene found the man suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his
upper body. Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots.
Police say the victim, a man in his 50s, died in hospital. No arrests have been made.
Magi
was well-known to police. In 2008, he was wounded but survived when his
Range Rover was riddled with bullets as he drove to work. He was also
kidnapped in 2005. Both of those crimes are unsolved. His wife’s vehicle
was shot at while she was driving near the family home in 2011. She was
unharmed.
In December 2009, Magi confirmed to the Montreal
Gazette that he was in business with Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of Mafia
boss Vito Rizzuto. Later that month, the younger Rizzuto was shot dead
outside the offices of Magi’s construction company.
Magi’s name
also came up during Quebec’s public inquiry into corruption in the
province’s construction industry. Wiretaps played at the inquiry
captured Magi discussing a real estate development with Vito Rizzuto in
2004.
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