Mexican authorities confirmed to The Gazette on Monday that Gallo, 68, was killed in Acapulco on Sunday, three years to the day that his former ally, Nicolo (Zio Cola) Rizzuto, 86, was felled by a sniper's bullet.

Local newspapers are reporting that Gallo was killed execution style by four men, not two. Gallo was dining with his friend, the owner of Forza Italia. The restaurant was nearly empty except for about eight wait-staff and the cook.

Witnesses told El Sur newspaper that Gallo was sitting at a table near the entrance. He fell to the ground and lay in a pool of blood beside the table.

Police are quoted in the newspaper as saying that his body was riddled with at least nine bullets.

One police source recently told The Gazette that Gallo was believed to be in the same boat as Joseph Di Maulo, 70, another influential Mafioso who was gunned down in front of his home in Blainville on Nov. 4, 2012. Both men were once considered allies of the Rizzuto organization even if they didn't share the same Sicilian origins as Nicolo Rizzuto, the patriarch of the clan.