Mafia hitman shot rival at 16 leaving him with ‘no head’ – and ‘wasn’t fazed’

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A notorious Mafia hitman has revealed his first hit, where he claims to have shot a rival gangster in the head during a clash as a teenager.

Anthony Raimondi claims to have been a former enforcer for the Colombo crime family, an Italian-American mafia organisation that caused terror in New York during the 1960s and 70s.

As part of his role, the brutal hitman revealed how he had started engaging in mob activity when Joe Colombo had given him sports tickets to deliver at the age of 14, and this soon escalated into more violent responsibilities.

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By 16, he was making thousands of dollars a day handling the mob’s income from racing and sports in their club.

And, it was during this time that he claimed to have come to blows with another gangster Salvatore Granello – known as Sally Burns – which he claims resulted in him shooting his rival dead.

“I shot him in the head 13 times, yeah, he had no head,” he claimed, while speaking on the DJVladTV YouTube channel.

Sharing the outlandish story, Anthony recalled how the conflict between the pair began when the man had walked into his club before hitting him in the head with his pistol and forcing Anthony to rush to hospital.

The mob hitman claimed that this forced him to take a stand of his own in order to avoid falling into a debt with the Colombos, so he confronted Burns in a nightclub, resulting in a clash.

“When he went to put his hand on the gun, I just picked my hand up and I just started pulling the trigger, and I killed him,” he suggested.

Afterwards, the alleged killer made his way to a Colombo family gathering, where he revealed what he had done.

He remembered: “They all looked at me and I’m sitting there, whether or not I really realised what I’d done, I guess I did, but it didn’t faze me one way or the other.

“The only thing I remember this guy saying is he was going to kill me, my mother was going to have a closed coffin, and I saw the gun that he was going to pull out of his waistband, that was it.”

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Anthony told the podcast that he was eventually arrested for the murder, but as he was a juvenile, he could only be sentenced to seven years.

But, before he could even make it to prison, he claimed that he was stopped by the FBI and forced to serve in the military for two years, resulting in him being shipped to the notorious Vietnam war.

Anthony’s allegations haven’t yet been proved by authorities; no one has been formally identified and arrested for the murder of Salvatore Granello after his body was reportedly found in the boot of a car in 1970.

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