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JULY 1, 2016
Owner of iconic Brooklyn pizza joint gunned down in hit job
The co-owner of iconic Brooklyn pizzeria L&B Spumoni Gardens was shot to death in a targeted hit outside his Brooklyn home Thursday night. Police found the slumped body of Louis Barbati, 61, at his home on 12th Avenue in Dyker Heights at about 7 p.m. with gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to law-enforcement sources. The assassin, described as a white man in his 30s wearing a black hoodie, approached Barbati, who was returning from the Bensonhurst pizzeria, which was once at the center of a Mafia extortion plot over a sto...
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