One of the guys was a thin, dark-haired, soft-spoken 28 year-old named Carmine Persico. They call him Junior, but he has become a big man in South Brooklyn for the regular underworld organization

Early on the Sunday morning of May 19, Persico and another gangster were coming out of a girl's house when a truck came past them and rifle shots came out of the back.

Both Persico and the other gangster were hit.

Persico with five bullets in him, was taken to the hospital. Detectives quickly walked in to question him.

"Look, you're going to die any minute now," one of them told Persico. "Before you go, why don't you straighten this thing out and tell us who did it? You know who it was. What's the difference if you talk now? You're going to die.

Persico shook his head slowly. "I don't know anything," he told the detectives. They kept talking to him, and Persico kept saying, "I don't know anything," until they left.