Good evening, Bridget Martin, Channel 2 CBS News reporter
June 1, 2007
On Friday morning NYPD Lt. Joseph Friday finally made a public statement during a press conference regarding the murder of a 45 year old man identified as Peter Patrazio. He was shot three times late Wednesday night as he walked out of a Manhattan bar. Lt. Friday said they are still trying to locate the man who fired the gun. The victim apparently lived in Chicago and has a record there as a burglar and petty thief. The supposition is that he works for a Mafia family in Chicago as a tough guy and hired gun and may have been pursuing the man that actually shot him.
The only witness was New York Times gossip columnist, Lindsay Davis. I managed to get a short interview with my friend, Lindsay during lunch today. She said she was standing there when the killer suddenly drew a pistol and fired three shots at the victim. Lindsay told me she saw the killer swinging from a lamp post, apparently drunk. She stopped and offered him a five dollar bill to go get some coffee to sober up. Then he must have been waiting for his victim to leave the bar.
Suddenly alert he shot the man, handed her back the five dollar bill, jumped in what she thinks was a dark Toyota Camry that drove up, and roared off into the night. She said she didn't really recognize the man, but his voice was hauntingly familiar when he dropped the façade and said goodbye.
These notorious gangland killings are a real annoyance to the police and are hard to trace since the Mafia have this Sicilian Omerta rule not to talk, period.
