The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A turncoat mobster has testified that he shot and killed an off-duty New York City patrolman in 1997.
But Dino Calabro also said Tuesday he didn’t know the victim was a police officer when he pulled the trigger.
Calabro is a government witness at the Brooklyn trial of Thomas “Tommy Guns” Gioeli, who is reputedly the former boss of the Colombo organized crime family. Gioeli has been linked to a half dozen gangland hits from the 1990s.
The police officer, Ralph Dols, was married to the ex-wife of another Colombo boss at the time of his death.
Calabro testified that he was ordered to carry out the hit on Dols. But he also claimed that he was told the target was a social club worker.