Mobster gunned down in driveway
Musitano brothers were linked to earlier killings
HAMILTON — Notorious mobster Angelo Musitano is the victim of what appears to be a fatal shooting in a Waterdown driveway, The Hamilton Spectator has learned.
“The war is on,” said a source with knowledge of the crime, which has all the markings of a gangland hit.
The source is not authorized to speak officially about the case.
Police cordoned off a street in Waterdown after several shots were reportedly fired at a man in a driveway Tuesday afternoon.
Police haven’t responded to requests for information but a forensics truck was on the Chesapeake Drive scene.
The activity appeared to centre on 14 Chesapeake Dr.
Angelo — Ang — is the younger brother of Pat Musitano. Together they were charged with first-degree murder in the 1997 contract killing of Hamilton Mob boss Johnny (Pops) Papalia. A plea bargain allowed the brothers to plead guilty to the lesser offence of conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Niagara crime boss Carmen Barillaro in 1997.
In the fall of 2015, Pat’s SUV was set on fire in the driveway of his home on St. Clair Boulevard in Hamilton.
At the Waterdown scene, neighbour Robert Andrew said he heard someone was targeted in a drive-by shooting earlier Tuesday afternoon.
Andrew says his wife spoke to a neighbour on Chesapeake who said eight shots were heard. “It’s scary for Waterdown,” he said. The fire department responded to a “vital signs absent” call on Chesapeake Drive at Rockhaven Lane around 4 p.m.
Property records show 14 Chesapeake Dr. in Waterdown is registered to Hayley Rachel Newton.
A 2012 donor report for the Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation list a “Miss Hayley Newton and Mr. Angelo Musitano” as having given between $1,000 and $4,999 that year.