Carmine Persico was shot five or six times.He and his friend Alphonse D'Ambrosia were in their car and a passing vehicle drove by with members of the Gallo gang fired at their vehicle,hitting Alphonse in the chest and Carmine in the face. Carmine reputedly spit out the bullet in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Harry Riccobene On June 8, 1982, the 72 year old mobster was seated in a phone booth talking to his 22 year old girlfriend, when the beefy 5-foot-10 Wayne Grande jogged up to the booth and shot Riccobene five times. Riccobene, tough as a bull, charged out of the booth, wrested the gun out of his assassin's hand before he collapsed. Grande fled.
On May 8, 1991 two shooters ambushed "Fat Pete"Chiodo at a gas station in Staten Island where he was working on a car. Chiodo received 12 bullet wounds in the arms, legs, and torso, but survived the attack.Doctors credited Chiodo's 500 pound weight for saving his life; his massive girth prevented the bullets from penetrating a vital organ or artery.
Sal Testa also survived numerous assassination attempts. The first time, Testa was sitting outside a restaurant in an Italian market, when a Ford Sedan slowed down and a sawn-off shotgun poked out of the window. Testa was caught full in the side with a load of buck shot that penetrated his stomach and nearly severed his left arm.
Ken Eto's gambling operation was uncovered by the FBI.On February 10, 1983, a few weeks prior to sentencing on his gambling conviction he was invited to a dinner meeting. Afraid he was going to be shot, he took a bath and put on his best suit before heading out for the meeting. As he was sitting in a parked car, hitmen Jasper Campise and John Gattuso fired three shots into his head; however, the bullets had only grazed Eto's skull. After regaining consciousnesses, he dragged himself into a local pharmacy and called "911".The would-be killers met a grim fate. Their tortured bodies were found in a car trunk near Naperville.
John Veasey was shot three times,two in the head and one in the chest during a botched hit in a Seventh Street apartment. He fought off his attackers, made a stumbling escape and gave a statement to police after they found him."Bye, John," Veasey said he heard Frank Martines tell him. "Then, pow, pow, pow! He shot me in the head. I grabbed my head, got up and turned around and said "Frank, what the f - - - are you doing?","Shoot him again," Veasey testified that Pagano had said.Veasey said he backed up, but his three-quarter-length leather jacket was pulled down over his arms and he couldn't move. He was shot in the chest.
Joseph Ciancaglini took five shots but also survived.The gunman opened fire in the rear of the restaurant's storage area. Three times in the face, once in the left foot and once in the right shoulder. A sixth bullet fragment was found in a nearby wall.Gasping for life, Ciancaglini, 34, struggled to reach a rear door but collapsed in a pool of blood. the gunman turned around, rushed past the waitress and the pizza ovens and fled out the front door of the one-story, white stucco building where a second assailant, dressed in a ski-mask and dark clothing, was acting as a lookout.A third masked man, the getaway driver, waited - either sitting in the car or standing alongside it. Eyewitnesses gave police conflicting accounts.
Dominick Costa was a master safecracker for the Bypass Gang, a highly skilled group of bank robbers run by Lucchese mobster Anthony Casso.When Casso discovered that Costa was a police informant, he decided to kill him. Casso hired Carmine Sessa because of his reputation as a hitman and because Costa did not know him.Sessa shot Costa five times in Costa's apartment, but Costa survived to later testify against the Lucchese crime family.
Mickey Cohen went to Atlanta Penitentiary when another convict hit him over the head with a lead pipe.Cohen was in a coma for two weeks and survived.
Lucky Luciano survived remarkable near-death attack.He had been abducted by a group of men, who beat and stabbed him. Left for dead on a beach in Staten Island, Luciano was discovered by a police officer and taken to the hospital.It was unclear who ordered the attack.
This is not a mob hit but i find this very funny.On september 15,1928 Al Capone shot himself after playing a game of golf with Johnny Patton, named the boy Mayor of Burnham.Capone was getting into a car when his .45 discharged in his right pant pocket, thus creating a bullet wound to both legs and groin.Al was taken to St .Margaret's Hospital in Hammond. Al registered at the hospital under the name of Geary. Al's entourage occupied five rooms at the hospital.On guard was Louis"Little New York" Campagna.
If any1 knows any other examples please contribute.cheers
