Manasseri’s parents immigrated to Canada in the 1950s from Sicily. The Manasseri children grew up in the area of Gladstone and Fairmont Avenues in Hintonburg.

His brother Charlie Manasseri is a convicted killer whose case dragged through the justice system for years before he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2017 for the 2005 beating death of a 22-year-old man who aspired to be a police officer.

Benny’s children, too, have had a former business — a Greco gym they owned and operated in Little Italy — hit by gunfire, though police believe they weren’t the intended targets.

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