As Piazza sat in his car listening to the gas pump ding, I like to imagine him thinking to himself, "Gee wiz, there has never been a gangster bumped off with a Tommy gun in all of Westmoreland County. Being a bootlegger here sure beats doing it in Chicago."
Obviously we don't know what Piazza was thinking at the time but while he was thinking whatever it was that he thought, a large touring sedan pulled into the station and parked next to him with the back window curtains closed. After it came to a stop the curtains parted and the muzzle of a Thompson machine-gun, said to be the first ever used in Westmoreland County, came forth. As the station attendant continued to pump petrol into Piazza's car,the gunman pumped a number of rounds into Piazza.
Mission completed, the sedan pulled away as Piazza slumped to the floor of his car. An ambulance was called and the bootlegger was rushed to the hospital where he died later in the day.
3 comments:
hello,
I was wondering if you had anymore information on Piazza that you could share with me. I have original newspaper articles from after the murder, but was hopefully to find out more about Piazza in general. (This was all I could find in a Google search, trying to put together some family history) thank you!
Hi Maggie, sorry but that's all I've got. Good luck with your search.
you could look on ancestry there's lots of articles. Patrick and Maggie I was wondering why your so interested in Luigi.
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