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00:00Who said it up?
00:04Tell you the truth about this.
00:09Everybody else is going to bring it to you.
00:22What do you got?
00:24Stop, stop, stop.
00:27He just missed? Get him, get him.
00:29This is a case that on its face looks fairly obvious as to who the shooter is.
00:43But what actually happened was so incredibly shocking that even detectives and seasoned journalists couldn't believe it.
00:55Who was behind this series of attacks of a neighborhood icon?
01:02He was punched.
01:04He was shot multiple times.
01:06And he had a hood on?
01:07Yes, and a mask.
01:10He was stabbed seven times.
01:12The entire family was under attack.
01:16It was brutal and crazy and unanswerable.
01:20Some guy got shot in the parking lot.
01:22He's dead.
01:25We have looked at the mafia.
01:27Now we don't know if they're not coming from us.
01:29There is somebody behind the scenes pulling the strings.
01:36And that begs the question.
01:38Who are you?
01:40Who are you?
01:41Who's the worst thing ever behind this movie?
01:43No.
01:44You're going to see you, he's still there.
01:45You're going to have to see you.
01:46You're going to see you.
01:47You're going to see me.
01:48People are going to see you.
01:49Do you see you.
01:50That's a good thing.
01:51You're going to see you.
01:52There are an amateur people missing here.
01:53You're going to see.
01:54If you're still here, you're going to see you.
01:55In September 2017, officers respond to an incident.
02:16The incident was recorded.
02:17The victim of the crime was Sylvester Zatola, commonly known as Sally Datz.
02:27He was 70 years old.
02:31He was merely standing outside when the video showed a male walk up to Mr. Zatola,
02:37engaged him in a short conversation, and basically asked him about employment.
02:41Sally Datz says, now there's no employment around here, and he had turned around.
02:47And he started punching him several times.
02:50And then all of a sudden, he just started viciously beating him right to the ground.
02:59He had some bruising, and he had a broken rib.
03:02It's heartless.
03:03Zatola tells police that the perpetrator was an African-American male, didn't really know the age.
03:16So it's a pretty basic description for a suspect.
03:21So the detectives really didn't have anything kind of go on in this case.
03:24Who's walking up to an elderly gentleman, you know, and beating him like that?
03:28Zatola's backstory is interesting.
03:34He was a guy who was also known in the community as a reputable businessman and a very successful businessman at that.
03:43And his business was real estate.
03:46Eventually amassing more than $40 million of primarily residential buildings throughout New York City.
03:56His wife died years ago, so essentially he became a single father to his three children.
04:04He had two boys and one girl, Deborah, the daughter.
04:09His eldest son, Salvatore, and his younger son was Anthony.
04:15And also a plethora of grandchildren.
04:19He would tell anybody who asked that his family was the most important thing in the world to him.
04:26In fact, his two sons were brought in to run portions of his business.
04:32He was a fixture of that community.
04:36He had been a supporter, you know, of the police and helped the precinct out a lot during his lifetime.
04:42With security cameras, you know, outside his residence, supplying video to the police and detectives for crimes that occur in and around the area.
04:50He was like the godfather of that community.
04:53It has been widely said that he was like Santa Claus without a beard.
04:56He was a jolly old fellow.
04:58He would be the type of guy who would wave to kids on the street corner.
05:03Everybody knew him.
05:05So why is someone going after him?
05:07Really a gem of the community.
05:10You know, we had a rash of old people getting sucker punched, you know, throughout, you know, New York City during that time as well.
05:17So is it just someone who's following a trend?
05:19It didn't look like it was a full attempt, you know, of his life other than an assault or maybe a possible attempt of robbery.
05:25November 2017, Sally Daz, he comes into the precinct, speaks to the desk officer, telling him he was driving on the expressway.
05:45And in front of him, and a perpetrator wearing a mask gets out with a firearm and starts threatening him and tells the first officer he sees that somebody is either trying to carjack him or kidnap him.
05:56Because, you know, what else would there be?
05:59But they do an area canvas which shows up negative for the perpetrator in the area.
06:03At this time, the two incidents are considered separate, even though it's our same victim, because it's a description Sally Daz gave.
06:13It's very vague.
06:15Really, at this point, both of these incidents are really like a dead end.
06:19There's no other investigative information, and all leads are exhausted.
06:23So a little over a month later, 911 has called for a break-in at the Zatola residence.
06:33So when the officers respond to Mr. Zatola's home, they find him.
06:40He's bleeding profusely on the ground.
06:42He's been stabbed multiple times and slashed across the neck.
06:46Somehow, miraculously, he survived this brutal attack.
07:01He tells detectives the little bit that he knew that he's at home.
07:09The next thing he knows, there's a group of men in there.
07:12And there wasn't small talk.
07:17There wasn't a lot of threats or anything like that.
07:25They went right after him.
07:29And he didn't get any great physical description, with the exception of he believed that these were predominantly African-American men.
07:42It doesn't appear that there's any forced entry.
07:50There's a code to get in.
07:51How did he have that code?
07:52And number two, Zatola has surveillance camera in his property.
08:00But guess what?
08:01There was no surveillance tape from that incident.
08:05They stole the home video surveillance.
08:10So this starts looking to us as, this might be an inside job.
08:14Someone's definitely trying to kill this guy.
08:17But wait a minute.
08:19Why did they want to kill him?
08:21Hi, my name's Frank DiMatteo.
08:25And I know Sally through the vending, uh, business.
08:30Are there things that just stays amongst the family and just don't share?
08:38Mob world family?
08:39You're not going to tell nobody nothing.
08:40The less people know, the better it is, because the less people got killed.
08:43What do you know about Sally's dad, you know?
08:52All you know about Sally is that he was a good guy.
08:55He was affiliated with the Bananos.
08:57He had friends for protection.
09:00I was with a different family.
09:02But that's how we got to know him at all, because he was, uh, in that area, it was a Banano area.
09:09So that's why we knew he had a friend up there.
09:12In New York City, there's five major crime families.
09:18And the Bananos really took a big chunk of the Bronx area.
09:24Many people don't walk around with a name tag that says, I'm in bed with a crime family.
09:32That's just not how it works.
09:35Zatola was considered an associate of the Banano family.
09:39Zatola himself wasn't in the mafia, but he had enough friends and a Banano crew.
09:46So what makes you a mobster because you've got a friend that's a mobster?
09:51To be able to do that world doesn't make him a gangster.
09:55Not everybody.
09:55I think because you know somebody, you're a gangster.
09:58It doesn't work that way.
09:58Only in, maybe on TV or something like that.
10:01Or, or, or, or, or, but in the real world, no.
10:05If you're a moron, you're a moron that knows a gangster.
10:10This guy was a legitimate businessman on real estate.
10:13And then he was involved with Joker Poker Games.
10:17That's how he got started, which is a big business.
10:20So Joker Poker is an extremely popular video gaming machine
10:31that is sold to and placed in social clubs.
10:37And it is very, very profitable because there's a lot of money in it.
10:43Is that still legal?
10:45No, it's not legal.
10:46You can bring in millions, you know, yearly.
10:50So, and it's unrecorded.
10:51It could be so lucrative.
10:53I know guys got tons and tons and tons of money by doing that.
10:57Vending.
10:58Like I said, it's all under the table, so.
11:02So Sally's dad had Joker Poker machines,
11:04which he would run anywhere from a basement apartment building
11:07to the back of the bodega
11:09to numerous different commercial locations
11:11where they have secret spots in the back.
11:14The expectation of Sally's dad's was to bring food to the,
11:18you know, bring food to the family.
11:20That's kind of like how they put it,
11:22is bringing money, kicking money up
11:24to the Bonanno crime family
11:26to help support the Bonanno crime family.
11:29So at this point, the mafia,
11:32someone trying to whack him and bump him off
11:34from his own organization, from one of the other families,
11:38you know, to gain all his profits
11:40and take over those Joker Poker machines
11:42or possibly even going into his real estate
11:44and trying to bump him out of real estate.
11:47Now, we don't know if it's not coming from us.
11:50You know, it could come up from Bonanno's,
11:52want to take him out,
11:53or some other family would try to move in on him.
11:56We don't know because they don't tell us.
11:57So several months go by since the third incident.
12:08He's off the grid.
12:10Sally lay low, which is what you're supposed to do,
12:12not being flashy.
12:14He doesn't stay at the house anymore.
12:16He has a separate apartment.
12:17He really buttoned up his inner circle,
12:20and that included his kids, his grandkids,
12:24and a couple of mob associates
12:27that he does most of his business with.
12:30So I know the Bonanno's,
12:32they would reach out in the street
12:33and see if we knew anything about it
12:35or anybody could find anything about it,
12:37and they didn't.
12:37That's what threw everybody off.
12:40At this point, it's becoming urgent
12:43that if law enforcement doesn't figure out
12:47who is targeting this elderly man,
12:51he will end up dead.
13:01One day in June 2018,
13:05Mr. Zatola was walking around
13:07in another section of the Bronx.
13:09He's been in hiding.
13:10He's been in hiding.
13:37Some approaches with a hoodie.
13:50On this day,
13:52Zatola's confronted
13:53outside of this new location.
13:57Somebody puts a gun into his face,
14:00is going to shoot him at point-blank range
14:02and kill him, no doubt.
14:03Now, luckily for Sally Daz,
14:07the gun jams,
14:08and Sally Daz has his own firearm on him
14:11and fires it at the fleeing perpetrator.
14:20So when the police arrive,
14:21you know, the first thing they do
14:22is they see Sally Daz
14:23and his son, Anthony Zatola.
14:25Can I pull the one in the world, Ben?
14:27Can I?
14:28Can he go inside?
14:29Is that okay?
14:29I'm not running inside right now.
14:33Mr. Zatola is a wreck.
14:34I was walking up 194th Street.
14:36Yes.
14:36I always turn around
14:38because I always think
14:39there's a car up there.
14:39You follow me?
14:40Mm-hmm.
14:41So I didn't see no car.
14:43I turned around
14:43and see a black guy
14:44with a hood on.
14:45He, you know,
14:47he walks across the street that way.
14:49He walks across the street that way.
14:52Mm-hmm.
14:52And he starts coming over
14:53to me like this.
14:54Oh, gosh.
14:55And he had a hood on?
14:56Yes.
14:57And a mask.
14:58So after this attempt,
14:59you know, Mrs. Zatola's kids,
15:01Deborah, Salvatore, and Anthony,
15:04they're all up in arms
15:05about what happened.
15:06That was the type of car I was here.
15:09It was a four-door blue,
15:12uh,
15:12with Connecticut plates on it.
15:16But at this point,
15:17what's going through
15:18the detective's minds
15:19is he's relocated.
15:21People who are behind this.
15:22How do they know
15:23where he is, right?
15:26And that's what makes
15:27this attack in June
15:30that much more brutal
15:34and crazy
15:35and unanswerable
15:37because he's in a location
15:39where nobody is supposed
15:41to know where he is.
15:45So what did you see
15:46when you saw him
15:46with a firearm?
15:47What did you do?
15:48I just,
15:50I just,
15:50I just,
15:51I love it.
15:52I said,
15:52don't move.
15:53Don't move,
15:54don't move,
15:54don't move.
15:55Uh-huh.
15:55You know,
15:56and he made a fire.
15:57And then you,
15:57what happened?
15:58I fired to scare him.
16:00He was returning fire,
16:02you know,
16:02to the perpetrator,
16:03so in self-defense.
16:04But he has an illegal
16:05firearm on him.
16:06How many shots
16:06did you fire?
16:07One.
16:07One?
16:07And do you have
16:08a pistol permit?
16:09No.
16:10So this is interesting.
16:11He ends up getting arrested
16:12for illegal gun possession.
16:17Anthony,
16:17they should be
16:19checking all these cameras.
16:21So,
16:22listen,
16:22I can't,
16:23I can't blame
16:24Sally Dance
16:24for carrying a firearm.
16:26Is it illegal?
16:26Yes.
16:27Is he getting arrested
16:28for it?
16:28Yes.
16:30Do I think
16:30a grand jury
16:31will ever indict him?
16:32You know,
16:33no.
16:33Why?
16:34Because there's
16:35four attempts
16:35on his life,
16:36but,
16:37um,
16:38the law's law.
16:39The law's law.
17:10Get him, get him.
17:16Get him!
17:17Yeah, come on. He's still there?
17:19OK, we'll get him back.
17:25D.
17:30D.
17:37D.
17:38D.
17:39D.
17:40D.
17:41D.
17:42D.
17:43D.
17:44D.
17:45D.
17:46D.
17:47Okay, okay.
17:49Right here.
17:50Okay, okay.
17:52Okay.
17:53Finally, in custody?
17:56Really what happens is after this fourth incident,
17:59the perpetrator for that incident
18:01ends up getting arrested a little while later
18:03in Manhattan for criminal possession of a weapon
18:06because he has that illegal firearm.
18:07I got the gun, I got the gun.
18:09You got the gun?
18:09And where was the gun drop?
18:10The gun was right, I saw him throw it over here.
18:14Okay.
18:14Yeah.
18:14The problem is in the Bronx,
18:18we don't get that information that the arrest is made.
18:21The arrest happened in Manhattan
18:23and the attempted shooting was in the Bronx.
18:27And both shootings and gun arrests happen all the time
18:30in New York City,
18:31so neither really warrants any kind of citywide action.
18:35And so both jurisdictions are left in the dark
18:38about what the other had.
18:40And I don't think anybody in law enforcement thought
18:44that these were the same group of perpetrators
18:47or, at the very least,
18:49the same group behind the planning of this.
18:56At this point in the investigation,
18:58now we start pulling jail phone calls
19:00to see who's calling,
19:02talking to Mr. Zatola
19:03to see if they have any idea who it is
19:05or is it them.
19:07Mr. Zatola had very strong ties with Vinny.
19:12And Vinny Bassiano was the head of the Bonanno family.
19:17And not only were they really close friends,
19:21they were also really close business associates.
19:25Vinny, he's actually in jail during this whole incident.
19:27And the sons had approached him with a phone call
19:32to see even if the Mafia is involved with this.
19:36Vinny, they think we know who these people are.
19:38I'm like, we have no idea.
19:39We don't have anybody.
19:41And Vinny Gorgeous basically said right off the mark,
19:44the crime families have no involvement with this.
19:47This is something coming from outside.
19:49And Vinny loved Sally Daz
20:03and for years contributed to the family.
20:05That's not somebody who they would want to get rid of.
20:12And if it was, you know, another Mafia organization,
20:18another one of those five families,
20:20you know, Vinny Gorgeous probably would have said something.
20:22But we got nothing like that.
20:42One day in July,
20:44Zatola's family vehicle stops and parks
20:49at the Zatola family compound.
20:52But it wasn't Sal Sr. who got out of the car.
20:57It was his son, Sal Jr.
21:02And all of a sudden,
21:04somebody was targeting
21:10what appeared to be his entire family.
21:12Sal Jr. is shot
21:24multiple times.
21:27He's rolling around on the ground.
21:29It's a gruesome crime.
21:31Again, in broad daylight.
21:34It was a life-threatening wound.
21:37You know, and he was rushed to the hospital
21:38and lucky for him, it was non-fatal.
21:40And he survived that.
21:43It was some big news.
21:45We heard about it when it happened.
21:47We found it strange.
21:51And we found it strange because
21:52the shooter was strange.
21:56This guy's half-running,
21:59looking for him, trying to shoot him.
22:00I said, that's how you do it.
22:01As somebody who covered this case,
22:06the mob gets it done on the first try.
22:09And this was a case where
22:11it was almost like
22:13a bunch of bumbling idiots
22:15trying to kill somebody,
22:18but always failing.
22:20It was so just unprofessional,
22:21you know, the whole thing, you know.
22:23It'll take you three times,
22:24go kill somebody.
22:25Takes you two minutes,
22:27you get up close and kill the guy.
22:29You know,
22:31was it mistaken identity?
22:34I think it was.
22:35Yeah, 100%.
22:36Do you think
22:38it was the real target here?
22:40That day, yeah.
22:42Yes.
22:43Definitely.
22:47So when I look at this incident,
22:49you know, a lot of people say
22:50maybe it's mistaken identity, right?
22:53He gets out and the perpetrator
22:54comes up and starts shooting at him.
22:57Maybe he mistakes that it's his dad.
22:59I never really looked at it that way.
23:00The way I looked at it as is,
23:02hey, listen,
23:03they're going after Sally Daz.
23:04They can't get him, right?
23:06What's the next thing likely to do?
23:08Let's go after a family.
23:09You know, like they want his business.
23:11They go after the kid too.
23:12What this attack showed law enforcement was
23:21that it wasn't just the elder Zatola.
23:24The entire family was under attack.
23:30And that begs the question,
23:33who wants this entire family dead?
23:37There are no leads.
23:40Cops aren't close to a suspect.
23:42And everybody is waiting for the next shoe to drop.
23:48I was a stringer,
24:00a freelance reporter for the New York Daily News.
24:03The guy that goes to the scene
24:05to cover a story in person.
24:08If it's a crime scene,
24:10talk to people,
24:11go to court,
24:13talk to the cops,
24:14things of that nature.
24:15So that day,
24:19the editor says,
24:20well, you might regret this,
24:22but I have an assignment for you.
24:25I'm working on a normal shift.
24:28Salvatore was done recovering.
24:30And we get the call
24:31that there's a homicide
24:32over at the McDonald's
24:34on Webster Avenue.
24:36It's a kind of busy corridor
24:39in West Bronx.
24:41Not a nice place,
24:42to be honest with you.
24:42Fire, medical.
24:44Hi, can you start me?
24:45Somebody got shot in the parking lot.
24:48Somebody got shot?
24:50Yes.
24:50Anybody know who shot him?
24:52No.
24:53The crime scene at McDonald's,
24:55and it was an Acura SUV,
24:57maroon-colored car,
24:59just next to the McDonald's.
25:01Takeout window.
25:03First reading?
25:05Well, to be honest with you,
25:06I'm inside.
25:07I'm one of the managers
25:08of McDonald's,
25:09and I was taking a order
25:10when I see him
25:10that he'll come and shot the guy.
25:12Okay.
25:14I don't know this man.
25:15I was about to give him the food
25:17when everything happened.
25:18Anybody got a description
25:19of the person?
25:20Do you know where he shot at?
25:21All we know is somebody,
25:23we're just taking care of customers.
25:25Somebody just ran to the car
25:26and shot at him.
25:28While we're en route,
25:29they tell us right away
25:30that it's Sally Daz.
25:33And someone had shot
25:34and killed him
25:34in the drive-thru
25:35at the McDonald's.
25:37So he's in the car?
25:39Yes, he's dead.
25:44As a department,
25:46we have the duty
25:47to protect our citizens.
25:49So when you turn around
25:50and you fail at it,
25:51yeah, you get emotional about it
25:53and you want to go out
25:54and find out who the murderer is.
25:57When we get there,
25:59I'm brought to the rear
26:00of the McDonald's.
26:02It appeared that the vehicle
26:03is pressed up against the building
26:05where the call box is.
26:07Mr. Zotola is slumped
26:09on the steering wheel.
26:12There's a fence
26:13around the McDonald's perimeter
26:15and there's a big hole
26:17in the fence.
26:19And as I learned,
26:21the suspected killer at the time
26:22snuck into that hole.
26:24The victim, Zotola,
26:27is in his car
26:28and he's driving up
26:29to the drive-in window
26:31and he orders a coffee
26:33and he's boxed in.
26:35There's a car in front of him
26:37and there's a car behind him
26:39so he can't move.
26:40That's kind of like a funnel,
26:41right?
26:41That we're always taught
26:42as police officers,
26:43don't drive through drive-thrus,
26:45don't go through.
26:46Why?
26:46Because of bottlenecks.
26:48And now all of a sudden,
26:48you're a target.
26:50And so the killer,
26:51when he gets close,
26:54he just fires the shots
26:55and he hits him
26:57in the back
26:58and in the chest.
27:02And we're shocked at that.
27:04We're shocked at why.
27:06I always thought
27:07they were going to rob him.
27:08That's how we could shake him down
27:10and rob him, you know.
27:11And it just escalated
27:12to him getting killed.
27:14Got killed.
27:15First thing I noticed
27:20walking around the vehicle
27:21was the cluster of bullet holes
27:23in the side window.
27:27It was a very tight cluster.
27:29So the person who turned around
27:30and fired this weapon
27:31had a very tight grouping,
27:33which means he didn't just fire
27:35a weapon haphazardly
27:37into the vehicle
27:37hoping to strike.
27:39He fired that weapon
27:41and those bullets
27:42through that vehicle
27:43and struck him with precision.
27:45So that tells me, you know,
27:47that the shooter
27:47has used a firearm before,
27:50that he's proficient with it,
27:51and that he can stay on target
27:53even during a stressful situation
27:55like that.
27:58So I started asking myself,
28:01out of all these other attempts,
28:03I can see a level
28:04of professionalism
28:05has increased.
28:07And I kind of felt
28:09that this could be
28:10a different person
28:11from the last couple of attempts.
28:12One of the other detectives
28:18interviewed the 911 caller.
28:20He looks young.
28:22He looks like a black kid.
28:23But she took cover
28:24and wasn't able to see his face,
28:26but he had retreated
28:27back up the hill.
28:28A few days later,
28:35I covered the funeral.
28:37The church was packed.
28:39There were like,
28:40maybe at least 300 people
28:42in there,
28:43packed.
28:45And there was this
28:45beautiful photo
28:46of Zotola.
28:49And I'm just looking at him,
28:50look at him.
28:50It's like,
28:51it's like my grandpa,
28:53you know?
28:54It could be my grandpa.
28:54Deborah and Sal Jr.
28:59and Anthony
29:00all gave touching eulogies
29:02about what this man
29:04meant to them
29:05and to this community.
29:07They were devastated
29:09at the news
29:10that they had lost the man
29:12that they were closest to
29:14in their lives.
29:15Debbie, the daughter,
29:18I remember her in tears.
29:20Anthony, too,
29:20had some very nice words
29:22about his father.
29:23It was like,
29:24you were a wise man,
29:25you were strong,
29:27and he would say,
29:28you taught me
29:28everything in life.
29:30I need to make you proud.
29:32Like,
29:32I will do all I can
29:33not to disappoint
29:35the family,
29:36you know,
29:37my brother,
29:37my sister,
29:38especially you.
29:39It was very touching.
29:43There's something
29:44so mundane
29:44about all of this,
29:45right?
29:46You're just ordering
29:46a coffee,
29:47you're just like
29:47an average Joe
29:48ordering a coffee,
29:49and he loved
29:50to get his coffee there.
29:51And that was
29:52his last coffee.
29:54I don't believe
29:56in coincidences,
29:57so I started asking myself,
29:59okay,
29:59how do they know
30:00where he is?
30:01Are they following him?
30:04The vehicle ends up
30:05getting removed
30:06to really get processed.
30:07We go over the entire vehicle.
30:11They go from top to bottom,
30:13you know,
30:14from the front to the back.
30:15And one of the things
30:16that we end up coming up with
30:18is a tracker on the vehicle.
30:22A GPS device
30:24that is in the wheel well.
30:25It answers some questions
30:27like,
30:27wow,
30:28right?
30:28That's how they've been
30:29tracking them,
30:29and that's how
30:30they got them here.
30:30So at this point,
30:32this is like
30:32the real big,
30:34solid piece of evidence
30:35that we had
30:36that could possibly
30:37bring us,
30:38you know,
30:38to a perpetrator.
30:39I know how these things work,
30:41and I know
30:42that this thing
30:43is talking to something.
30:45So it's going to be
30:45talking to a cell phone
30:46or to some other device
30:48that's going to be able
30:49to be tracked.
30:52We'd sent it to the lab
30:54and to get it broken down.
30:56So once we start
30:57receiving that information back,
30:59what do I do?
31:01Just like I have kids.
31:03Every time they get a new toy,
31:05they want to play with it.
31:08Usually the first thing
31:09that they'll do is
31:10they'll activate this device
31:12near their home.
31:14So I look at the first thing
31:15that's on that line
31:16of where it is,
31:18and that leads me
31:18to Topping Avenue
31:19in the Bronx.
31:22It's less than a half a mile
31:23from the crime scene
31:24at the McDonald's.
31:26So then I turn around
31:27and I start my video campus.
31:29I go up and down
31:30Topping Avenue,
31:31and I walk into
31:32this one building,
31:33and I go and I start
31:34downloading video
31:35and reviewing video,
31:37and I see the GPS device
31:40being used.
31:41It looks like being tested
31:42by two males
31:43out in front of the address.
31:46And all my other attempts,
31:47they're masterhooded.
31:48But these guys are standing
31:49right out in plain view,
31:51and I can see
31:52exactly who they are.
31:54These aren't
31:58your mafia type.
32:02At the same time,
32:04a Bloods member
32:05named Ron Caby,
32:06who was arrested
32:07in Manhattan
32:08a few months earlier
32:09for discarding
32:10that firearm,
32:11came forward
32:12and said to the police,
32:15I've been seeing
32:16all these headlines,
32:17I've been hearing
32:18all of this
32:18about the Zatola murder.
32:20I have information
32:21that you're going
32:22to want to know.
32:24He feels that
32:25he's going to be
32:26wrapped up
32:26in this whole thing,
32:27and he wants
32:28to get ahead of it,
32:29and he wants
32:29to cut a deal
32:30and give up
32:31who everybody is.
32:33He tells them
32:34that he was
32:36offered $10,000
32:37from a Bloods associate
32:39to kill an older man.
32:44He was given
32:45intimate details
32:47about the person
32:49that he was going after,
32:50from security codes
32:53to where surveillance cameras
32:56were located
32:56in the residences
32:58to routines,
33:01times of day,
33:02that the victim
33:03might be home.
33:04And when he went
33:07to shoot and kill
33:08an elderly man,
33:10his gun jammed.
33:14Now the light bulbs
33:15are going off, okay?
33:17Now it's a murder
33:17for hire case.
33:19And the people
33:20who are outside
33:21using that GPS device,
33:23they're just hired hitmen.
33:25Who's going out
33:26and employing them?
33:27That's what I want
33:27to find out.
33:29But Ron KB
33:30does not know
33:31who the handler is.
33:33He doesn't know
33:34who the mastermind
33:34behind this whole thing is.
33:36He just knows
33:37that they were hired
33:38to kill Sylvester Zatola.
33:40But Ron KB
33:41tells us
33:42the names
33:42of the people
33:43using the GPS
33:44that was used
33:46to murder
33:47Sally Datz.
33:49That's Besson Shelton.
33:52And that's
33:53Hyman Ross.
33:57I'm given an opportunity
33:59to kind of explain
34:00what happened that day.
34:03To explain what?
34:04Why don't you tell us?
34:05I don't have enough
34:06to tell us, man.
34:11We established
34:12probable cause
34:13and now we're turning around.
34:14We're arresting Besson Shelton
34:15at his residence
34:16in Brooklyn.
34:19We tend to imagine
34:20killers of mobsters
34:22as just looking
34:23the way the mobsters look.
34:25But Besson Shelton
34:26is just a regular guy
34:28from Brooklyn.
34:30Went to college
34:31in the Bronx.
34:33I remember looking at
34:35Shelton's LinkedIn page
34:37and I was thinking,
34:38oh, this is just like
34:39an average guy.
34:40When we do the search
34:42of his residence,
34:43we find a firearm,
34:44which is not part
34:46of our crime,
34:47but we also find
34:48cell phones.
34:50Sean Shelton's cell phone
34:52revealed text messages
34:54between he
34:57and somebody else
34:59speaking in movie terms
35:01and movie vernacular.
35:04For example,
35:06Shelton was referring
35:07to himself
35:07as the director.
35:10And shortly after
35:12the murder was done,
35:14he texted something
35:15to the effect of,
35:17the movie is shot
35:18or the movie is over.
35:21These are cold words
35:22about the murder.
35:24And we start seeing
35:25all the messages
35:27that were going
35:28back and forth
35:28to an unknown number.
35:30So that phone number
35:33is now submitted.
35:34Now they're going
35:35to find out
35:35in the subscriber information
35:37on who owns that phone.
35:39And when I get
35:40that phone call,
35:41it was probably
35:42one of the best phone calls
35:43I've ever gotten
35:43in my life.
35:47It was the wow moment
35:49of this entire case
35:50and probably in my career
35:52as well,
35:53to find out
35:54that his own son,
35:55Anthony Zatola,
35:56organized the murder
35:57of his father.
36:00I was like,
36:01wait, Anthony?
36:03The guy's son
36:05was grieving
36:07at the funeral
36:08and just thought,
36:09like, who knew?
36:11I think anybody
36:11covering this case
36:13knew that there was
36:15a part of this
36:16that was an inside job
36:18of some sort.
36:19Can he go inside?
36:21Is that okay?
36:22Everything started
36:28making sense.
36:30I mean,
36:31he knew where his father
36:32was all the time.
36:34He knew that there was
36:35video cameras
36:36inside the residence.
36:37He knew the code
36:38to get into the back
36:39of his house
36:40and to his kitchen.
36:41He knew all of that.
36:42It's very, very rare
36:45that organized crime
36:47will bring in
36:48somebody from
36:49the outside,
36:51somebody from
36:52a street gang
36:53to do their dirty work.
36:55That was like
36:56the car was here.
36:58But Anthony had
37:00to go outside
37:01of their circle.
37:03Bouchon Shelton,
37:04he's the guy
37:05or the subcontractor
37:06where you go to
37:07and you say,
37:08I need this,
37:08this, and this,
37:09and then he finds
37:10the people
37:11to do the job
37:11and who knew
37:12how to pull off
37:13violent attacks.
37:18One thing I can say
37:19is I had a feeling
37:20you were coming.
37:21When, I don't know,
37:22but I can tell you
37:23that it was
37:24after Father's Day
37:25and it was
37:26after all my kids
37:27breakfast.
37:27Anthony was arrested
37:29the day after
37:31Father's Day
37:32for his own
37:34father's murder.
37:36He doesn't have
37:37remorse,
37:38and that was
37:40the shocking
37:40throughout this
37:42entire ordeal.
37:45Anthony
37:45played the
37:47loving son
37:48while he was
37:50pulling all the strings.
37:51I don't know
37:52for certain,
37:53but I'm not sure
37:54that Anthony
37:55has a soul.
37:59So detectives
38:00are thinking,
38:01what's the motive here?
38:02once we make
38:04the arrest,
38:05we look into
38:06Anthony Zatolo.
38:09Sally's dad
38:09had multiple
38:10businesses,
38:10from real estate
38:11to also
38:12joker poker machines.
38:14Anthony was running
38:15the real estate
38:17arm of this business,
38:19but the eldest son,
38:22Salvatore,
38:23was running
38:24the joker poker
38:25portion of this business
38:26and worked
38:27more closely
38:28with the mob
38:30associates
38:30and the folks
38:32within social clubs.
38:34I think this was
38:35a case
38:36of Anthony
38:38wiping out
38:39his brother
38:40and his father,
38:42wanting dad's money,
38:44wanting the brother's money,
38:45as the only way
38:47to ascend
38:48in the family
38:49and become
38:51the guy.
38:51The only motive
38:54that is clear
38:55as day
38:56is the motive
38:57of greed.
39:00Sally,
39:01he's just a good guy,
39:03man.
39:04We would take it back.
39:06Our world usually
39:07doesn't happen
39:07over money.
39:08You respect your father,
39:09you're going to kill him
39:09or your brother,
39:11but you've got to be
39:11out of your mind
39:12to do something like that.
39:21Sean Shelton
39:29tells the U.S. attorney
39:30Hyman Ross
39:31is the guy
39:31that was a shooter.
39:33Prosecutors said
39:34Hyman Ross
39:35was a violent member
39:36of the Blood Street Gang
39:37with a felony record.
39:39I mean,
39:39he was definitely
39:40someone capable
39:42of pulling off
39:43a targeted killing
39:44in a drive-thru.
39:51It took them
40:11over a year
40:12really to succeed
40:13because of the
40:14different players
40:14that they had involved
40:16and that's also
40:16what kind of
40:17threw us off
40:17during the days.
40:19You went from
40:20guys who really
40:21had no experience
40:22trying to carry this out
40:24to, at the end,
40:25more experienced guys
40:27that were able
40:27to get the job done.
40:29I think the most
40:30bothersome part
40:32about this case
40:33is that
40:35the elder Zatola
40:36did everything
40:38for his children
40:39and yet
40:41it wasn't enough
40:43for Anthony.
40:45Anthony was still
40:47interacting
40:48with his father
40:49at birthdays,
40:50at family events,
40:52making money
40:53off of his father,
40:55meantime,
40:56secretly plotting
40:58his demise.
40:59In the right
41:10you
41:10are
41:11going to
41:12last
41:13I
41:14go to
41:15the
41:17you
41:18go to
41:19the
41:21the
41:21the
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