It was August 18, 1931 and Joe Cigna and Anthony Justiano stood among eight other guys on a corner in New York City's Little Italy. As the men conversed, four other men approached the group and drew pistols. Cigna and Justiano seemed to realize that they were on the spot because they both took off running followed by the gunmen who unleashed a barrage of gunfire.
Justiano tried for a tenement but dropped dead in the doorway while his partner dropped dead in front of another building. Police said that the dead men were involved in both bootlegging and narcotics and that the killers may have been imported from Buffalo, NY where both men had operated in the past.
Joe Cigna Anthony Justiano
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