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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.
01:38He's dead.
01:39He's dead.
01:40He's dead.
01:41He's dead.
01:42He's dead.
01:43He's dead.
01:44He's dead.
01:45Peace.
01:46He's dead.
01:47He's dead.
01:48But what are you doing?
01:50Well, what am I doing?
01:52I'm not doing anything.
01:53In 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?
17:19Get him!
17:42Possibly on the parking lot.
17:49Right here.
17:53Finally, in custody.
17:56Really what happens is after this fourth incident,
17:59the perpetrator for that incident ends up getting arrested a little while later
18:03in Manhattan for criminal possession of a weapon because 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, we don't get that information that the arrest is made.
18:21The arrest happened in Manhattan and the attempted shooting was in the Bronx.
18:27And both shootings and gun arrests happen all the time in New York City,
18:31so neither really warrants any kind of citywide action.
18:35And so both jurisdictions are left in the dark about what the other had.
18:39And I don't think anybody in law enforcement thought that these were the same group of perpetrators
18:47or, at the very least, the same group behind the planning of this.
18:56At this point in the investigation, now we start pulling jail phone calls to see who's calling,
19:02talking to Mr. Zatola to see if they have any idea who it is or is it them?
19:06Mr. 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.
19:28And the sons had approached him with a phone call to 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.
19:49There's nobody there, you bother.
19:50They should push you through this bullshit, man.
19:52Come on, man.
19:53Your father's a good person.
19:54Your father's the salt of the earth.
19:56The salt of the earth.
19:57He helped out everybody.
19:58You know what I mean?
19:58I don't know who's got this problem against them.
20:01And Vinny loved Sally Daz and for years contributed to the family.
20:05That's not somebody who they would want to get rid of.
20:08It's somebody that he knows.
20:09There's somebody that knows his routine.
20:12All right.
20:12Bye.
20:13Bye.
20:14I just don't know who it is.
20:15And 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.
20:24One day in July, Zatola's family vehicle stops and parks
20:49at the Zatola family compound.
20:51But 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 what appeared to be his entire family.
21:12Sal Jr. is shot multiple 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.
21:39And 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 the shooter was strange.
21:54This guy's half-running, looking for him, trying to shoot him.
22:00I said, that's how you do it.
22:01As somebody who covered this case, the mob gets it done on the first try.
22:09And this was a case where it was almost like a bunch of bumbling idiots trying to kill somebody,
22:18but always failing.
22:20It was so just unprofessional, you know, the whole thing, you know.
22:23It'll take you three times to go kill somebody.
22:25Takes you two minutes, you get up close and kill the guy.
22:28You know.
22:31Was it mistaken identity?
22:34I think it was.
22:35Yeah, 100%.
22:36Do you think it was the real target here?
22:40That day, yeah.
22:42Yes.
22:43Definitely.
22:43So when I look at this incident, you know, a lot of people say maybe it's a mistake in identity, right?
22:53He gets out and the perpetrator comes up and starts shooting at him.
22:57Maybe he mistakes that it's his dad.
22:59I never really looked at it that way.
23:01The way I looked at it as is, hey, listen, they're going after Sally Daz.
23:04They can't get him, right?
23:05What'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 that it wasn't just the elder Zatola.
23:24The entire family was under attack.
23:30And that begs the question, who wants this entire family dead?
23:36There are no leads.
23:40Cops aren't close to a suspect.
23:44And everybody is waiting for the next shoe to drop.
23:58I was a stringer, a freelance reporter for the New York Daily News.
24:02The guy that goes to the scene to cover a story in person.
24:08If it's a crime scene, talk to people.
24:11Go to court.
24:13Talk to the cops.
24:14Things of that nature.
24:18So that day, the editor says, well, you might regret this, but 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 that there's a homicide over at the McDonald's on Webster Avenue.
24:35It's a kind of busy corridor in West Bronx.
24:41Not a nice place, to be honest with you.
24:42Fire, medical.
24:44Hi, can you send me down the ambulance right now?
24:46Somebody 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, and it was an Acura SUV, maroon-colored car,
24:59just next to the McDonald's, takeout window.
25:03First breathing.
25:05Well, to be honest with you, I'm inside.
25:07I'm one of the managers of McDonald's, and I was taking an order when I seen the food come and shot the guy.
25:12I don't know this man.
25:15I was about to give him the food when everything happened.
25:18Anybody got a description of the person?
25:20Do you know what he shot at?
25:21All we know is somebody, we're just taking care of customers, and somebody just ran to the car and shot at him.
25:28While we're en route, they tell us right away that it's Sally Daz.
25:33And someone had shot and killed him in the drive-thru at the McDonald's.
25:37So he's in the car?
25:39Yes, he's dead.
25:44As a department, we have the duty to protect our citizens.
25:48So when you turn around and you fail at it, yeah, you get emotional about it, and you want to go out and find out who the murderer is.
25:58When we get there, I'm brought to the rear of the McDonald's.
26:02It appeared that the vehicle is pressed up against the building where the call box is.
26:07Mr. Zatola is slumped on the steering wheel.
26:10There's a fence around the McDonald's perimeter, and there's a big hole in the fence.
26:19And as I learned, the suspected killer at the time snuck into that hole.
26:25The victim, Zatola, is in his car, and he's driving up to the drive-in window, and he orders a coffee.
26:33And he's boxed in.
26:35There's a car in front of him, and there's a car behind him, so he can't move.
26:40That's kind of like a funnel, right?
26:41That we're always taught as police officers, don't drive through drive-thrus, don't go through.
26:46Why?
26:46Because of bottlenecks.
26:48And now all of a sudden, you're a target.
26:49And so the killer, when he gets close, he just fires the shots.
26:56And he hits him in the back and in the chest.
27:02And we're shocked at that.
27:04We're shocked at why.
27:06I always thought they were going to rob him.
27:08That's how we could shake him down and rob him, you know.
27:11And it just escalated to him getting killed.
27:14Got killed.
27:19First thing I noticed walking around the vehicle was the cluster of bullet holes in the side window.
27:27It was a very tight cluster.
27:29So the person who turned around and fired this weapon had a very tight grouping,
27:33which means he didn't just fire a weapon haphazardly into the vehicle hoping to strike.
27:38He fired that weapon and those bullets through that vehicle and struck him with precision.
27:44So that tells me, you know, that the shooter has used a firearm before,
27:50that he's proficient with it, and that he can stay on target even during a stressful situation like that.
27:59So I started asking myself, out of all these other attempts,
28:03I can see a level of professionalism has increased.
28:06And I kind of felt that this could be a different person from the last couple of attempts.
28:16One of the other detectives interviewed the 911 caller.
28:20He had a black hoodie hat.
28:21He looks young.
28:22He looks like a black kid.
28:23But she took cover and wasn't able to see his face,
28:26but he had retreated back up the hill.
28:28A few days later, I covered the funeral.
28:37The church was packed.
28:39There were, like, maybe at least 300 people in there.
28:43Packed.
28:45And there was this beautiful photo of Zotola.
28:49And I'm just looking at him.
28:50Look at him.
28:50It's like...
28:51It's like my grandpa, you know?
28:54It could be my grandpa.
28:54Deborah and Sal Jr. and Anthony all gave touching eulogies
29:02about what this man meant to them and to this community.
29:07They were devastated at the news that they had lost the man
29:12that they were closest to in their lives.
29:15Debbie, the daughter, I remember her in tears.
29:20Anthony, too, had some very nice words about his father.
29:23He was like, you were a wise man.
29:25You were strong.
29:27And he was saying, you taught me everything in life.
29:30I need to make you proud.
29:32Like, I will do all I can not to disappoint the family.
29:36You know, my brother, my sister, especially you.
29:39It was very touching.
29:43There's something so mundane about all of this, right?
29:46You're just ordering a coffee.
29:47You're just like an average Joe ordering a coffee.
29:49And he loved to get his coffee there.
29:51And that was his last coffee.
29:55I don't believe in coincidences.
29:57So I started asking myself, okay, how do they know where he is?
30:01Are they following him?
30:04The vehicle ends up getting removed to really get processed.
30:07We go over the entire vehicle.
30:12They go from top to bottom, you know, from the front to the back.
30:15And one of the things that we end up coming up with is a tracker on the vehicle.
30:22A GPS device that is in the wheel well.
30:25It answers some questions like, wow, right?
30:28That's how they've been tracking them, and that's how they got them here.
30:30So at this point, this is like the real big, solid piece of evidence that we had that could
30:36possibly bring us, you know, to a perpetrator.
30:39I know how these things work, and I know that this thing is talking to something.
30:45So it's going to be talking to a cell phone or to some other device that's going to be
30:49able to be tracked.
30:52We'd sent it to the lab and to get it broken down.
30:55So once we start receiving that information back, what do I do?
31:01Just like I have kids.
31:03Every time they get a new toy, they want to play with it.
31:08Usually the first thing that they'll do is they'll activate this device near their home.
31:14So I look at the first thing that's on that line of where it is, and that leads me to
31:18Topping Avenue in the Bronx.
31:20It's less than a half a mile from the crime scene at the McDonald's.
31:26So then I turn around, and I start my video canvas.
31:29I go up and down Topping Avenue, and I walk into this one building, and I go, and I start
31:34downloading video and reviewing video, and I see the GPS device being used.
31:41It looks like being tested by two males out in front of the address.
31:46And all my other attempts, they're masterhooded.
31:48But these guys are standing right out in plain view, and I can see exactly who they are.
31:58These aren't your mafia type.
31:59At the same time, a Bloods member named Ron Cabe, who was arrested in Manhattan a few months
32:08earlier for discarding that firearm, came forward and said to the police,
32:13He feels that he's going to be wrapped up in this whole thing, and he wants to get ahead
32:28of it, and he wants to cut a deal and give up who everybody is.
32:32He tells them that he was offered $10,000 from a Bloods associate to kill an older man.
32:42He was given intimate details about the person that he was going after, from security codes to where
32:54surveillance cameras were located in the residences, to routines, times of day that the victim might
33:04be home.
33:06And when he went to shoot and kill an elderly man, his gun jammed.
33:13Now the light bulbs are going off, okay?
33:17Now it's a murder for hire case.
33:19And the people who are outside using that GPS device, they're just hired hitmen.
33:25Who's going out and employing them?
33:27That's what I want to find out.
33:30Ra KB does not know who the handler is.
33:33He doesn't know who the mastermind behind this whole thing is.
33:36He just knows that they were hired to kill Sylvester Zatola.
33:40But Ra KB tells us the names of the people using the GPS that was used to murder Sally Datz.
33:50That's Besson Shelton.
33:52And that's Hyman Ross.
33:54I'm giving an opportunity to kind of explain what happened that day.
34:03Explain what?
34:04Why don't you tell us?
34:05I don't have enough attention, man.
34:12We established probable cause, and now we're turning around.
34:14We're arresting Besson Shelton at his residence in Brooklyn.
34:17We tend to imagine killers of mobsters as just looking the way the mobsters look.
34:25But Besson Shelton is just a regular guy from Brooklyn.
34:30Went to college in the Bronx.
34:34I remember looking at Shelton's LinkedIn page and I was thinking, oh, this is just like
34:39an average guy.
34:41When we do the search of his residence, we find a firearm, which is not part of our crime.
34:47But we also find cell phones.
34:51Sean Shelton's cell phone revealed text messages between he and somebody else speaking in movie
35:01terms and movie vernacular.
35:05For example, Shelton was referring to himself as the director.
35:11Shortly after the murder was done, he texted something to the effect of, the movie is shot
35:18or the movie is over.
35:21These are cold words about the murder.
35:24And we start seeing all the messages that were going back and forth to an unknown number.
35:31So that phone number is now submitted.
35:34Now they're going to find out in the subscriber information on who owns that phone.
35:39And when I get that phone call is probably one of the best phone calls I've ever gotten in my life.
35:48It was the wow moment of this entire case and probably in my career as well to find out that
35:54his own son Anthony Zatolo organized the murder of his father.
36:01I was like, wait, Anthony?
36:04The guy's son was grieving at the funeral and just thought, like, who knew?
36:11I think anybody covering this case knew that there was a part of this that was an inside job of some sort.
36:19Can he go inside? Is that OK?
36:26Everything started making sense.
36:30I mean, he knew where his father was all the time.
36:33He knew that there was video cameras inside the residence.
36:37He knew the code to get into the back of his house and to his kitchen.
36:41He knew all of that.
36:43It's very, very rare that organized crime will bring in somebody from the outside,
36:50somebody from a street gang to do their dirty work.
36:55That type of car was here.
36:58But Anthony had to go outside of their circle to Sean Shelton.
37:04He's the guy or the subcontractor where you go to and you say, I need this, this and this.
37:09And then he finds the people to do the job and who knew how to pull off violent attacks.
37:18One thing I can say is I had a feeling you were coming when I don't know,
37:22but I can thank you that it was after Father's Day and it was after all my kids' breakfast.
37:27Anthony was arrested the day after Father's Day for his own father's murder.
37:35He doesn't have remorse.
37:38And that was the shocking throughout this entire ordeal.
37:43Anthony played the loving son while he was pulling all the strings.
37:50I don't know for certain, but I'm not sure that Anthony has a soul.
38:00So detectives are thinking, what's the motive here?
38:04If we make the arrest, we look into Anthony Zatolo.
38:08Sally's dad had multiple businesses, from real estate to also joker poker machines.
38:13Anthony was running the real estate arm of this business.
38:19But the eldest son, Salvatore, was running the joker poker portion of this business and worked more closely with the mob associates and the folks within social clubs.
38:33I think this was a case of Anthony wiping out his brother and his father, wanting dad's money,
38:43wanting the brother's money as the only way to ascend in the family and become the guy.
38:51The only motive that is clear as day is the motive of greed.
39:00Sally, just a good guy, man.
39:04We would take it back.
39:06Our world usually doesn't happen over money.
39:08You respect your father.
39:09You're gonna kill him or your brother.
39:11But you gotta be out of your mind to do something like that.
39:13Sean Shelton tells the U.S. Attorney Hyman Ross is the guy that was a shooter.
39:33Prosecutors said Hyman Ross was a violent member of the Blood Street Gang with a felony record.
39:39I mean, he was definitely someone capable of pulling off a targeted killing in a drive-thru.
39:45Because they were not able to Patton, they were unable to bring the gun to Patton and Del Rio,
40:02but it took them over a year, really, to succeed.
40:03Because of the different players that they had involved so much to be the idea of the impact.
40:09it took them over a year really to succeed because of the different players that they
40:15had involved and that's also what kind of threw us off during the days
40:18you went from guys who really had no experience trying to carry this out to at the end more
40:26experienced guys that were able to get the job done i think the most bothersome part about this
40:33case is that the elder zetola did everything for his children and yet it wasn't enough for anthony
40:44anthony was still interacting with his father at birthdays at family events
40:52making money off of his father meantime secretly plotting his demise
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