romano's sons murder was a mistake, it was meant for ponzo, mikey's son mike jr was hanging around with ponzo and ponzo was going to put the shake on the guy that owned the stadium cafe in everett, and that guy was already paying protection to the rossetti/salemme side, so on that particular day ponzo was going to pick up some dough, and the guy had already tipped of the rossetti's that ponzo was coming. and ponzo happened to have mikey jr with him as well as obby (the blur) Paleo and they were at the chinease resteraunt eating before going to see the guy at the stadium cafe and when they came out ponzo's black lincoln had a flat tire, he asked mikey jr to change it and ponzo and blur walked up to the stadium cafe a short distance away, to supposedly use the phone, and as mikey jr was changing the tire a yellow van pulled up real close and almost hit him, and as mike got up from the crouched position from changing the tire joseph souza pressed a 9 mill gun to his cheek and blew him away beleiving it was ponzo, shortly after that a whole shooting match began, for months, alot of people shot and killed or wounded or just missed it seemed like every couple weeks somone was getting shot and killed!