

Retired Montreal police officer André Gélinas said it’s unusual that an extended family member of a Mafia boss would be targeted, particularly a woman. A police cruiser is shown at an apartment building in Montreal, Sunday, Aug. Montreal police are investigating a second homicide in less than 12 hours after a man was found shot dead in a parking lot in a northern borough. Iacono was married to one of Gallo’s sons, Anthony. Gallo was killed in 2013 in Acapulco, Mexico, a few years after he was deported from Canada. The car was found in the parking lot outside a popular salon that Iacono owned in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district. Multiple reports identified the victim as Claudia Iacono, 39, the daughter-in-law of the late Moreno Gallo, a reputed mob boss. Montreal police on Tuesday found a woman shot dead in a car that was still running and had collided with a building. MONTREAL – A brazen daylight shooting of a Montreal salon owner has Mafia experts calling out the ruthlessness and arrogance of organized crime in the city. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
