Early Wednesday morning Rizzuto crime family associate Ennio Bruni was gunned down outside Café Bellerose in the Montreal, QC Canada suburb of Laval as reported by Tim Snow for the Montreal Gazette: "Bruni had been named as a money-runner in Laval gaming houses for the Rizzuto clan - and also as a bodyguard for Francesco del Balso, an alleged bookmaker and Mafia underboss who court documents linked with attempts to launder illegal gambling and drug profits."
At the current rate Rizzuto mobsters quickly may become an extinct species. Last July family leader Agostino Cuntrera and his driver and body guard Liborio Sciascia were shot to death; last June reputed consigliere Paola Renda apparently was kidnapped into oblivion; last December Nick Rizzuto Jr., the son of the imprisoned reputed boss Vito Rizzuto, was gunned down; and in August 2009 convicted drug trafficker Frederico Del Peschio, a close associate of the family, was murdered.
