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00:00case that on its face
00:02looks fairly obvious
00:07as to who the shooter is
00:11but what actually happened
00:15was so incredibly shocking
00:17that even detectives and
00:21seasoned journalists couldn't believe it
00:24who was behind
00:27this series of attacks
00:29of a neighborhood icon
00:31he was punched
00:33he was shot multiple times
00:35and he had a hood on
00:37yes and a mask
00:39he was stabbed seven times
00:40the entire family was under attack
00:44biomedical
00:45it was brutal and crazy
00:48and unanswerable
00:50some guy got shot in the parking lot
00:52he's dead
00:52we had looked at the mafia
00:56now we don't know if it's not coming from us
00:59there is somebody behind the scenes
01:04pulling the screens
01:06and that begs the question
01:08okay
01:12you
01:14In September 2017,
01:43officers respond to an incident.
01:46The incident was recorded.
01:52The victim of the crime was Sylvester Zatola,
01:54commonly known as Sally Datz.
01:57He was 70 years old.
02:02He was merely standing outside when the video showed
02:04a male walk up to Mr. Zatola,
02:07engaged him in a short conversation,
02:09and basically asked him about employment.
02:11Sally Datz says,
02:12now there's no employment around here.
02:14And he had turned around
02:17and started punching him several times.
02:20And then all of a sudden,
02:21he just started viciously beating him,
02:23right to the ground.
02:29He had some bruising,
02:30and he had a broken rib.
02:32It's heartless.
02:38Zatola tells police that the perpetrator was
02:41an African-American male,
02:44didn't really know the age.
02:46So it's a pretty basic description for a suspect.
02:50So the detectives really didn't have anything
02:52kind of go on in this case.
02:54Who's walking up to an elderly gentleman,
02:56you know,
02:57and beating him like that?
03:02Zatola's backstory is interesting.
03:04He was a guy who was also known in the community
03:08as a reputable businessman,
03:10and a very successful businessman at that.
03:13And his business was real estate,
03:16eventually amassing more than $40 million
03:21of primarily residential buildings
03:24throughout New York City.
03:27His wife died years ago,
03:29so essentially he became a single father
03:32to his three children.
03:34He had two boys and one girl,
03:37Deborah, the daughter.
03:38His eldest son, Salvatore,
03:42and his younger son was Anthony.
03:47And also a plethora of grandchildren.
03:50He would tell anybody who asked
03:52that his family was the most important thing
03:55in the world to him.
03:56In fact, his two sons were brought in
03:59to run portions of his business.
04:04He was a fixture of that community.
04:06He had been a supporter, you know,
04:08of the police,
04:09and helped the precinct out a lot
04:11during his lifetime.
04:12With security cameras, you know,
04:13outside his residence,
04:15supplying video to the police and detectives
04:17for crimes that occur in and around the area.
04:20He was like the godfather of that community.
04:23It has been widely said that he was like
04:25Santa Claus without a beard.
04:26He was a jolly old fellow.
04:29He would be the type of guy
04:30who would wave to kids on the street corner.
04:33Everybody knew him.
04:34So why is someone going after him,
04:36really a gem of the community?
04:39You know, we had a rash of old people
04:41getting sucker punched, you know,
04:43throughout, you know, New York City
04:45during that time as well.
04:46So is it just someone who's following a trend?
04:49It didn't look like it was a full attempt,
04:50you know, of his life other than an assault
04:52or maybe a possible attempt of robbery.
05:07November 2017, Sally Daz,
05:09he comes into the precinct,
05:10speaks to the desk officer,
05:11telling him he was driving on the expressway,
05:14and in front of him,
05:16and a perpetrator wearing a mask gets out with a firearm
05:19and starts threatening him
05:21and tells the first officer he sees
05:22that somebody is either trying to carjack him
05:24or kidnap him.
05:25Because, you know, what else would there be?
05:28But they do an area canvas which shows up negative
05:31for the perpetrator in the area.
05:33At this time, the two incidents are considered separate,
05:38even though it's our same victim
05:40because it's a description Sally Daz gave.
05:43It's very vague.
05:44Really, at this point,
05:46both of these incidents are really like a dead end.
05:48There's no other investigative information
05:51and all leads are exhausted.
05:58So a little over a month later,
06:009-1-1 has called for a break
06:01in at the Zatola residence.
06:03So when the officers respond to Mr. Zatola's home,
06:05they find him.
06:10He's bleeding profusely on the ground.
06:12He's been stabbed multiple times
06:14and slashed across the neck.
06:21Somehow, miraculously,
06:24he survived this brutal attack.
06:31He tells detectives the little bit
06:34that he knew
06:36that he's at home.
06:39The next thing he knows,
06:40there's a group of men in there.
06:45And there wasn't small talk.
06:47There wasn't a lot of threats
06:49or anything like that.
06:51They went right after him.
07:00And he didn't get any great physical description
07:03with the exception of he believed
07:05that these were predominantly African-American men.
07:08It doesn't appear that there's any forced entry.
07:19There's a code to get in.
07:21How did he have that code?
07:22And number two,
07:23Zatola has surveillance camera
07:26in his property.
07:29But guess what?
07:31There was no surveillance tape
07:33from that incident.
07:38They stole the home video surveillance.
07:40So this starts looking to us as,
07:42this might be an inside job.
07:44Someone's definitely trying to kill this guy.
07:48But wait a minute.
07:49Why did they want to kill him?
07:53Hi, my name's Frank DiMatteo,
07:55and I know Sally through the vending business.
07:59Are there things that just
08:02stays amongst the family
08:04and just don't share?
08:08Mob world family?
08:09They're not going to tell nobody nothing.
08:10The less people know, the better it is,
08:12because the less people got killed.
08:20What do you know about Sally?
08:21You know?
08:22All you know about Sally,
08:24Sally was a good guy.
08:25He was affiliated with the Bananos.
08:27He had friends for protection.
08:29I was with a different family,
08:31but that's how we got to know him at all,
08:35because he was, in that area,
08:37it was a Banano area,
08:39so that's why we knew he had a friend up there.
08:43In New York City,
08:44there's five major crime families.
08:46And the Bananos really took a big chunk
08:51of the Bronx area.
08:53Many people don't walk around
08:57with a name tag that says,
08:59I'm in bed with a crime family.
09:02That's just not how it works.
09:05Zatola was considered an associate
09:08of the Banano family.
09:09Sally himself wasn't in the mafia,
09:13but he had enough friends and a Banano cool.
09:16So what makes you a mobster
09:18because you got a friend that's a mobster?
09:21To be able to do that world
09:23doesn't make him a gangster.
09:24Not everybody,
09:25I think because you know somebody,
09:26you're a gangster.
09:27It doesn't work that way.
09:28Only in, maybe on TV or something like that,
09:31or, or, or...
09:32But in the real world, no.
09:34If you're a moron,
09:35you're a moron that knows a gangster.
09:37This guy was a legitimate businessman on real estate.
09:43And then he was involved with Joker Poker Games.
09:46That's how he got started,
09:48which is a big business.
09:53So Joker Poker is an extremely popular video gaming machine
10:00that is sold to and placed in social clubs.
10:06And it is very, very profitable
10:10because there's a lot of money in it.
10:13Is that still legal?
10:14No, it's not legal.
10:15You can bring in millions, you know, yearly.
10:19So, and it's unrecorded.
10:21It could be so lucrative.
10:22I know guys got tons and tons and tons of money
10:25by doing that vending.
10:27Like I said, it's all under the table, so.
10:32So Sally Daz had Joker Poker machines,
10:34which he would run anywhere from a basement apartment building
10:37to the back of the bodega,
10:39to numerous different commercial locations
10:41where they have secret spots in the back.
10:44The expectation of Sally Daz was to bring food to the,
10:47you know, bring food to the family.
10:50That's kind of like how they put it,
10:52is bringing money, kicking money up
10:54to the Bonanno crime family.
10:56to help support the Bonanno crime family.
10:59So at this point, the mafia,
11:01someone trying to whack him and bump him off
11:05from his own organization,
11:06from one of the other families, you know,
11:08to gain all his profits
11:10and take over those Joker Poker machines,
11:12or possibly even going into his real estate
11:15and trying to bump him out of real estate.
11:17Now, we don't know if it's not coming from us.
11:20You know, it could be coming from Bonanno's,
11:22wanting to take him out,
11:23or some other family would try to move in on him.
11:26We don't know, because they don't tell us.
11:27So several months go by since the third incident.
11:38He's off the grid.
11:39Sally lay low, which is what you're supposed to do,
11:42not being flashy.
11:44He doesn't stay at the house anymore.
11:45He has a separate apartment.
11:47He really buttoned up his inner circle.
11:51And that included his kids, his grandkids,
11:54and a couple of mob associates
11:57that he does most of his business with.
11:59So I know the Bonanno's,
12:02they would reach out in the street
12:03and see if we knew anything about it,
12:05or anybody could find anything about it.
12:06And they didn't.
12:07That's what it threw everybody off.
12:10At this point, it's becoming urgent
12:14that if law enforcement doesn't figure out
12:17who is targeting this elderly man,
12:20he will end up dead.
12:29One day in June 2018,
12:34Mr. Zatola was walking around
12:37in another section of the Bronx.
12:39He's been in hiding.
12:59Someone approaches with a hoodie.
13:20On this day,
13:22Zatola's confronted outside of this new location.
13:27Somebody puts a gun into his face,
13:30is gonna shoot him at point-blank range
13:32and kill him, no doubt.
13:34Now, luckily for Sally Daz, the gun jams.
13:38And Sally Daz has his own firearm on him.
13:42And fires it at the fleeing perpetrator.
13:50So when the police arrive,
13:51you know, the first thing they do
13:52is they see Sally Daz and his son, Anthony Zatola.
13:56The Boulevard and Wilkheim.
13:57Can he go inside?
13:59Is that okay?
14:00Not right now.
14:01Not actually going inside right now.
14:02Okay.
14:03Mr. Zatola is a wreck.
14:04I was walking up on 94th Street.
14:06Yes.
14:07I always turn around
14:08because I always think there's a car up there.
14:09You following me?
14:10Mm-hmm.
14:11So I didn't see no car.
14:12I turned around and see a black guy.
14:15Mm-hmm.
14:16He, you know, he walks across the street that way.
14:19Mm-hmm.
14:20And he starts coming over to me like this.
14:24Okay.
14:25And he had a hood on?
14:26Yes.
14:27And a mask.
14:28So after this attempt,
14:29you know, Mrs. Zatola's kids,
14:31Deborah, Salvatore, and Anthony,
14:34they're all up in arms about what happened.
14:36That was the type of car I was in.
14:39It was a four-door blue, uh,
14:43with two plates on it.
14:46But at this point,
14:47what's going through the detective's minds
14:49is he's relocated.
14:50People are behind this.
14:52How do they know where he is?
14:54Right?
14:55And that's what makes this attack in June
15:00that much more brutal and crazy and unanswerable.
15:08Because he's in a location where nobody is supposed to know where he is.
15:13Dude, what did you see when you saw him with a firearm?
15:17What did you do?
15:30He was returning fire, you know, to the perpetrator,
15:33so in self-defense.
15:34But he has an illegal firearm on him.
15:36How many shots did you fire?
15:37One.
15:38And do you have a little pistol permit?
15:39No.
15:40So this is interesting.
15:41He ends up getting arrested for illegal gun possession.
15:47Anthony, they should be checking all these cameras.
15:51So, listen, I can't blame Sally Dance for carrying a firearm.
15:55Is it illegal? Yes.
15:57Is he getting arrested for it? Yes.
16:00Do I think a grand jury will ever indict him?
16:02You know, no.
16:03Why?
16:04Because there's four attempts on his life,
16:06but the law is the law.
16:33Okay.
16:34So he's going to be the one who is okay.
16:35Go, go, go.
16:41Get him, get him.
16:46Get him.
16:47Yeah, come on.
16:48He's still there?
17:03He's still there.
17:18He's still there, okay?
17:20All right, all right.
17:21All right.
17:22Finally, in custody.
17:26Really what happens is after this fourth incident,
17:29the perpetrator for that incident
17:31ends up getting arrested a little while later
17:33in Manhattan for criminal possession of a weapon
17:36because he has that illegal firearm.
17:37I got the gun. I got the gun.
17:39You got the gun?
17:39And where was the gun drop?
17:40The gun was right... I saw him throw it over here.
17:44Okay.
17:44Yeah.
17:46The problem is in the Bronx,
17:48we don't get that information that the arrest is made.
17:51The arrest happened in Manhattan
17:53and the attempted shooting was in the Bronx.
17:57And both shootings and gun arrests
17:59happen all the time in New York City,
18:01so neither really warrants any kind of citywide action.
18:05And so both jurisdictions are left in the dark
18:08about what the other had.
18:10And I don't think anybody in law enforcement
18:13thought that these were the same group of perpetrators
18:17or, at the very least,
18:19the same group behind the planning of this.
18:26At this point in the investigation,
18:28now we start pulling jail phone calls
18:30to see who's calling,
18:32talking to Mr. Zatola
18:33to see if they have any idea who it is,
18:35or is it them?
18:37Mr. Zatola had very strong ties with Vinny,
18:42and Vinny Bassiano was the head of the Bonanno family.
18:47And not only were they really close friends,
18:51they were also really close business associates.
18:55Vinny, he's actually in jail during this whole incident.
18:58And the sons had approached him with a phone call
19:02to see even if the mafia is involved with this.
19:06Vinny, they think we know who these people are.
19:08I'm like, we have no idea.
19:09And Vinny Gorgeous basically said right off the mark,
19:14the crime families have no involvement with this.
19:17This is something coming from outside.
19:19There's nobody there, you bother.
19:20They should push you through this bullshit, man.
19:22Come on, man.
19:23Your father's a good person.
19:24Your father's the salt of the earth.
19:26The salt of the earth.
19:27He helped out everybody.
19:28You know what I mean?
19:28I don't know who's got this problem against them.
19:31And Vinny loved Sally Daz
19:33and for years contributed to the family.
19:35That's not somebody who they would want to get rid of.
19:38It's somebody that he knows.
19:39There's somebody that knows his routine.
19:42All right.
19:43Bye.
19:43I just don't know who it is.
19:45And if it was, you know, another mafia organization,
19:48another one of those five families,
19:50you know, Vinny Gorgeous probably would have said something.
19:52But we got nothing like that.
19:54One day in July,
20:15Zatola's family vehicle stops and parks
20:19at the Zatola family compound.
20:22But it wasn't Sal Sr. who got out of the car.
20:27It was his son, Sal Jr.
20:32And all of a sudden,
20:34somebody was targeting what appeared to be his entire family.
20:42Sal Jr. is shot multiple times.
20:57He's rolling around on the ground.
20:59It's a gruesome crime.
21:01Again, in broad daylight.
21:03It was a life-threatening wound.
21:07You know, and he was rushed to the hospital.
21:09And lucky for him, it was non-fatal.
21:10And he survived that.
21:13It was some big news.
21:15We heard about it when it happened.
21:17We found it strange.
21:21And we found it strange because the shooter was strange.
21:26This guy's half-running, looking for him, trying to shoot him.
21:30I said, that's how you do it.
21:33As somebody who covered this case,
21:36the mob gets it done on the first try.
21:38And this was a case where it was almost like
21:43a bunch of bumbling idiots trying to kill somebody,
21:48but always failing.
21:50It was so just unprofessional, you know, the whole thing, you know.
21:53I'll take you three times to go kill somebody.
21:55Takes you two minutes, you get up close and kill the guy.
21:59You know.
22:00Was it mistaken identity?
22:04I think it was.
22:05Yeah, 100%.
22:06Do you think it's the real target here?
22:10That day, yeah.
22:12Yes.
22:13Definitely.
22:13So when I look at this incident, you know,
22:19a lot of people say maybe it's a mistake in identity, right?
22:23He gets out and the perpetrator comes up and starts shooting at him.
22:27Maybe he mistakes that it's his dad.
22:29I never really looked at it that way.
22:31The way I looked at it as is,
22:32hey, listen, they're going after Sally Daz.
22:34They can't get him, right?
22:36What's the next thing likely to do?
22:38Let's go after a family.
22:39You know, like they want his business.
22:41They go after the kid, too.
22:47What this attack showed law enforcement was
22:51that it wasn't just the elder Zetola.
22:56The entire family was under attack.
23:00And that begs the question,
23:03who wants this entire family dead?
23:07There are no leads.
23:09Cops aren't close to a suspect.
23:15And everybody is waiting for the next shoe to drop.
23:18I was a stringer,
23:30a freelance reporter for the New York Daily News.
23:33The guy that goes to the scene
23:35to cover a story in person.
23:39If it's a crime scene,
23:40talk to people,
23:41go to court,
23:43talk to the cops,
23:44things of that nature.
23:45So that day,
23:49the editor says,
23:50well, you might regret this,
23:52but I have an assignment for you.
23:55I'm working on a normal shift.
23:58Salvatore was done recovering,
24:00and we get the call
24:01that there's a homicide
24:02over at the McDonald's
24:04on Webster Avenue.
24:05It's a kind of busy corridor
24:09in West Bronx.
24:11Not a nice place,
24:12to be honest with you.
24:12Fire, medical.
24:14Hi, can you send me down the ambulance?
24:16Somebody got shot in the parking lot.
24:18Somebody got shot?
24:20Yes.
24:20Anybody know who shot him?
24:22No.
24:23The crime scene at McDonald's,
24:25and it was an Acura SUV,
24:27maroon-colored car,
24:29just next to the McDonald's.
24:31Takeout window.
24:33First breathing.
24:35Well, to be honest with you,
24:36I'm inside.
24:37I'm one of the managers
24:38of McDonald's,
24:39and I was taking an order
24:40when I seen the food
24:41from the shot I got.
24:42I don't know this man.
24:45I was about to give him the food
24:47when everything happened.
24:48Anybody got a description
24:49of the person?
24:50Do you know where he shot at?
24:51All we know is somebody,
24:53we're just taking care of customers.
24:55Somebody just ran to the car
24:56and shot at him.
24:58While we're en route,
24:59they tell us right away
25:00that it's Sally Vaz.
25:03And someone had shot and killed him
25:04in the drive-thru at the McDonald's.
25:07So he's in the car?
25:09Yes, he's dead.
25:14As a department,
25:16we have the duty
25:17to protect our citizens.
25:19So when you turn around
25:20and you fail at it,
25:21yeah,
25:22you get emotional about it
25:23and you want to go out
25:24and find out
25:24who the murderer is.
25:28When we get there,
25:29I'm brought to the rear
25:30of the McDonald's.
25:32It appeared that the vehicle
25:33is pressed up against the building
25:35where the call box is.
25:37Mr. Zatola is slumped
25:39on the steering wheel.
25:42There's a fence
25:43around the McDonald's perimeter
25:45and there's a big hole
25:47in the fence.
25:47And as I learned,
25:51the suspected killer
25:51at the time
25:52snuck into that hole.
25:55The victim, Zatola,
25:57is in his car
25:58and he's driving up
25:59to the drive-in window
26:01and he orders a coffee.
26:04And he's boxed in.
26:05There's a car in front of him
26:07and there's a car behind him.
26:09So he can't move.
26:10That's kind of like a funnel,
26:11right?
26:11That we're always taught
26:12as police officers,
26:13don't drive through drive-thrus,
26:15don't go through.
26:16Why?
26:16Because of bottlenecks.
26:18And now all of a sudden
26:18you're a target.
26:20And so the killer,
26:21when he gets close,
26:24he just fires the shots.
26:26And he hits him
26:27in the back
26:28and in the chest.
26:32And we're shocked at that.
26:34We're shocked at why.
26:37I always thought
26:37they were going to rob him.
26:38That's how we could
26:39shake him down
26:40and rob him, you know.
26:41And it just escalated
26:42to him getting killed.
26:44Got killed.
26:49First thing I noticed
26:50walking around the vehicle
26:51was the cluster of bullet holes
26:53in the side window.
26:57It was a very tight cluster.
26:59So the person who turned around
27:00and fired this weapon
27:01had a very tight grouping,
27:03which means he didn't
27:04just fire a weapon
27:05haphazardly into the vehicle
27:07hoping to strike.
27:08He fired that weapon
27:11and those bullets
27:12through that vehicle
27:13and struck him with precision.
27:15So that tells me, you know,
27:17that the shooter
27:17has used a firearm before,
27:20that he's proficient with it,
27:21and that he can stay on target
27:23even during a stressful situation
27:25like that.
27:28So I started asking myself,
27:31out of all these other attempts,
27:32I can see a level of professionalism
27:35that has increased.
27:37And I kind of felt
27:39that this could be
27:40a different person
27:41from the last couple of attempts.
27:46One of the other detectives
27:48interviewed the 911 caller.
27:50He had a black hoodie hat.
27:51He looks young.
27:52He looks like a black kid.
27:53But she took cover
27:54and wasn't able to see his face,
27:56but he had retreated
27:57back up the hill.
27:58A few days later,
28:05I covered the funeral.
28:07The church was packed.
28:09There were like maybe
28:10at least 300 people in there
28:12packed.
28:15And there was this
28:15beautiful photo of Zotola.
28:18And I'm just looking at him.
28:20Look at him.
28:20It's like...
28:21It's like my grandpa, you know?
28:24It could be my grandpa.
28:24Deborah and Sal Jr.
28:29and Anthony
28:30all gave touching eulogies
28:32about what this man meant to them
28:35and to this community.
28:37They were devastated at the news
28:40that they had lost the man
28:42that they were closest to
28:44in their lives.
28:45Debbie, the daughter,
28:48I remember her in tears.
28:50Anthony, too,
28:50had some very nice words
28:52about his father.
28:53He was like,
28:54you were a wise man.
28:55You were strong.
28:57And he was saying,
28:58you taught me everything in life.
29:00I need to make you proud.
29:02Like, I will do all I can
29:03not to disappoint the family.
29:06You know, my brother,
29:07my sister, especially you.
29:09It was very touching.
29:13There's something so mundane
29:14about all of this, right?
29:16You're just ordering a coffee.
29:17You're just like an average Joe
29:18ordering a coffee.
29:19And he loved to get his coffee there.
29:21And that was his last coffee.
29:24I don't believe in coincidences.
29:27So I started asking myself,
29:29okay, how do they know where he is?
29:31Are they following him?
29:34The vehicle ends up getting removed
29:36to really get processed.
29:37We go over the entire vehicle.
29:41They go from top to bottom,
29:43you know,
29:44from the front to the back.
29:45And one of the things
29:46that we end up coming up with
29:48is a tracker on the vehicle.
29:52A GPS device
29:54that is in the wheel well.
29:55It answers some questions like,
29:57wow, right?
29:58That's how they've been tracking them
29:59and that's how they got them here.
30:00So at this point,
30:02this is like the real big,
30:04solid piece of evidence
30:05that we had
30:06that could possibly bring us,
30:08you know,
30:08to a perpetrator.
30:09I know how these things work
30:11and I know that this thing
30:13is talking to something.
30:15So it's going to be talking
30:15to a cell phone
30:16or to some other device
30:18that's going to be able
30:19to be tracked.
30:20We'd send it to the lab
30:24and to get it broken down.
30:26So once we start receiving
30:27that information back,
30:29what do I do?
30:32Just like I have kids.
30:33Every time they get a new toy,
30:35they want to play with it.
30:38Usually the first thing
30:39that they'll do is
30:40they'll activate this device
30:42near their home.
30:44So I look at the first thing
30:45that's on that line
30:46of where it is
30:47and that leads me
30:48to Topping Avenue
30:49in the Bronx.
30:50is less than a half a mile
30:53from the crime scene
30:54at the McDonald's.
30:56So then I turn around
30:57and I start my video canvas.
30:59I go up and down
31:00Topping Avenue
31:00and I walk into
31:02this one building
31:02and I go
31:04and I start downloading video
31:05and reviewing video
31:06and I see the GPS device
31:10being used.
31:11Looks like being tested
31:12by two males
31:13out in front of the address.
31:16And all my other attempts,
31:17their masks are hooded.
31:18But these guys
31:19are standing right out
31:20in plain view
31:21and I can see
31:22exactly who they are.
31:28These aren't your mafia type.
31:32At the same time,
31:33a Bloods member
31:35named Ron Cabe,
31:36who was arrested
31:37in Manhattan
31:38a few months earlier
31:39for discarding that firearm,
31:41came forward
31:42and said to the police,
31:44I've been seeing
31:46all these headlines,
31:47I've been hearing
31:48all of this
31:48about the Zatola murder.
31:50I have information
31:51that you're going
31:52to want to know.
31:54He feels that he's going
31:55to be wrapped up
31:56in this whole thing
31:57and he wants to get ahead
31:58of it
31:58and he wants to cut a deal
32:00and give up
32:01who everybody is.
32:02He tells them
32:04that he was offered
32:06$10,000
32:07from a Bloods associate
32:09to kill an older man.
32:14He was given
32:15intimate details
32:17about the person
32:19that he was going after
32:20from security codes
32:23to where surveillance cameras
32:26were located
32:26in the residences
32:28to routines,
32:31times of day
32:32that the victim
32:33might be home.
32:36And when he went
32:37to shoot and kill
32:38an elderly man,
32:40his gun jammed.
32:44Now the light bulbs
32:45are going off, okay?
32:47Now it's a murder
32:47for hire case.
32:49And the people
32:50who are outside
32:51using that GPS device,
32:53they're just hired hitmen.
32:55Who's going out
32:56and employing them?
32:57That's what I want
32:57to find out.
32:59But Ra KB does not know
33:01who the handler is.
33:03He doesn't know
33:04who the mastermind
33:04behind this whole thing is.
33:06He just knows
33:07that they were hired
33:08to kill Sylvester Zitola.
33:10But Ra KB tells us
33:12the names of the people
33:13using the GPS
33:14that was used
33:16to murder Sally Daz.
33:19That's Besson Shelton
33:21and that's Hyman Ross.
33:27I'm giving you an opportunity
33:29to kind of explain
33:30what happened that day.
33:33Explain what?
33:34Why don't you tell us?
33:35I don't have enough
33:36attention, man.
33:41We established
33:42probable cause
33:43and now we're turning around.
33:44We're arresting Besson Shelton
33:45at his residence
33:46in Brooklyn.
33:47We tend to imagine
33:50killers of mobsters
33:52as just looking
33:53the way the mobsters look.
33:55But Besson Shelton
33:56is just a regular guy
33:58from Brooklyn.
34:00Went to college
34:01in the Bronx.
34:03I remember looking
34:04at Shelton's
34:06LinkedIn page
34:07and I was thinking
34:08oh, this is just like
34:09an average guy.
34:11When we do the search
34:12of his residence
34:13we find a firearm
34:13which is not part
34:16of our crime
34:16but we also find
34:18cell phones.
34:20Sean Shelton's
34:22cell phone
34:22revealed text messages
34:24between he
34:27and somebody else
34:29speaking in movie terms
34:31and movie vernacular.
34:34For example,
34:36Shelton was referring
34:37to himself
34:37as the director.
34:39And shortly after
34:42the murder was done
34:44he texted something
34:45to the effect of
34:46the movie is shot
34:48or the movie is over.
34:51These are cold words
34:52about the murder
34:53and we start seeing
34:55all the messages
34:57that were going
34:58back and forth
34:58to an unknown number.
35:01So that phone number
35:03is now submitted.
35:04Now they're going to find out
35:05in the subscriber information
35:07on who owns that phone.
35:08And when I get
35:10that phone call
35:10it was probably
35:12one of the best
35:12phone calls
35:13I've ever gotten
35:13in my life.
35:17It was the wow moment
35:19of this entire case
35:20and probably
35:21in my career as well
35:22to find out
35:24that his own son
35:25Anthony Zatolo
35:26organized the murder
35:27of his father.
35:30I was like,
35:31wait, Anthony?
35:33The guy's son
35:35was grieving
35:37at the funeral?
35:38and just thought
35:39like, who knew?
35:41I think anybody
35:41covering this case
35:43knew that there was
35:45a part of this
35:46that was an inside job
35:48of some sort.
35:50Can he go inside?
35:51Is that okay?
35:57Everything started
35:58making sense.
35:59He knew the code
36:08to get into the back
36:09of his house
36:10and to his kitchen.
36:11He knew all of that.
36:13It's very, very rare
36:15that organized crime
36:17will bring in
36:18somebody from
36:19the outside,
36:21somebody from
36:22a street gang
36:23to do their dirty work.
36:25Yeah, what type of
36:26car was he?
36:28But Anthony had
36:30to go outside
36:31of their circle.
36:33Bouchon Shelton,
36:34he's the guy
36:35or the subcontractor
36:36where you go to
36:37and you say,
36:38I need this,
36:38this, and this
36:39and then he finds
36:40the people to do
36:41the job
36:41and who knew
36:42how to pull off
36:43violent attacks.
36:44One thing I can say
36:49is I had a feeling
36:50you were coming.
36:51When, I don't know,
36:52but I can thank you
36:53that it was
36:54after Father's Day
36:55and it was
36:56after all my kids
36:57breakfast.
36:58Anthony was arrested
36:59the day after
37:01Father's Day
37:02for his own
37:04father's murder.
37:06He doesn't have
37:07remorse
37:08and that was
37:10the shocking
37:10throughout this
37:12entire ordeal.
37:14Anthony
37:15played the
37:17loving son
37:18while he was
37:20pulling all the
37:20strings.
37:21I don't know
37:22for certain,
37:23but I'm not sure
37:24that Anthony
37:25has a soul.
37:29So detectives
37:30are thinking,
37:31what's the motive
37:31here?
37:33Once we make
37:34the arrest,
37:35we look into
37:36Anthony Zatolo.
37:39Sally Dad
37:39had multiple
37:40businesses
37:40from real estate
37:41to also
37:42Joker Poker
37:43machines.
37:44Anthony was
37:45running the
37:46real estate
37:47arm of
37:48this business.
37:50But the
37:50eldest son,
37:52Salvatore,
37:53was running
37:54the Joker Poker
37:55portion of
37:56this business
37:56and worked
37:57more closely
37:58with the
37:59mob associates
38:00and the folks
38:02within social
38:03clubs.
38:04I think this
38:05was a case
38:06of Anthony
38:08wiping out
38:09his brother
38:10and his father,
38:12wanting dad's
38:13money,
38:13wanting the
38:14brother's money
38:15as the only
38:17way to ascend
38:18in the family
38:19and become
38:21the guy.
38:23The only motive
38:24that is clear
38:25as day
38:26is the motive
38:27of greed.
38:28Sally.
38:30He's just a good
38:33guy, man.
38:34We were taken
38:35back.
38:36In the whole world,
38:36it usually doesn't
38:37happen over money.
38:38You respect your
38:38father, you're going
38:39to kill him or your
38:40brother.
38:41But you've got to be
38:41out of your mind to
38:42do something like
38:43that.
38:43that.
38:58Sean Shelton tells
38:59the U.S.
39:00attorney, Hyman
39:00Ross is the guy
39:01that was a shooter.
39:03Prosecutors said
39:04Hyman Ross was a
39:05violent member of
39:06the Blood Street
39:07gang with a felony
39:08record.
39:08I mean, he was
39:10definitely someone
39:11capable of pulling
39:12off a targeted
39:13killing in a
39:15drive-thru.
39:15It took them over a
39:42year, really, to
39:43succeed because of the
39:44different players that
39:45they had involved.
39:46And that's also what
39:47kind of threw us off
39:47during the case.
39:50You went from guys
39:51who really had no
39:52experience trying to
39:53carry this out to,
39:54at the end, more
39:56experienced guys that
39:57were able to get the
39:58job done.
39:59I think the most
40:00bothersome part about
40:02this case is that the
40:05elder Zatola did
40:08everything for his
40:09children.
40:10And yet it wasn't
40:12enough for Anthony.
40:15Anthony was still
40:17interacting with his
40:19father at birthdays,
40:21at family events,
40:22making money off of his
40:24father, meantime,
40:26secretly plotting his
40:28demise.
40:29and then he was
40:30going to be, of course,
40:31to be a
40:34guy on the
40:35side.
40:36He's going to be
40:36going to be
40:37going to be
40:37a little
40:38little
40:39and I'm going to be
40:39going to be
40:39going to be
40:40going to be
40:41going to be in a
40:42way to get it.
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