Bloods Leader Gets 37 Years for Murder of Mafia Gambling Kingpin

A Brooklyn Bloods leader who unionized the sidesplitting of a reputed Bonnano law-breaking family unit associate was sentenced to 37 years in prison by a federal jurist on Thursday.

Bushawn Shelton, 39, staged the execution of Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, 71, at the behest of Zottola’s own son, Anthony Zottola, who sought after his father’s real-estate empire.

Zottola senior, who for decades ran illegal “Joker Poker” machines inwards New House of York City for the mafia, was jibe to dying inwards his elevator car at a Bronx McDonald’s drive-thru inwards October 2018.

Anthony Zottola and the triggerman, Bloods fellow member Hyman Ross, were found guilty of off charges inwards Oct 2022 and sentenced to living internment in April. They were also convicted of the attempted dispatch of Anthony’s brother, Salvatore Zottola, who was barb inward the head, chest, and helping hand by Betsy Griscom Ross out of doors his rest home inwards July 2018.

Botched Attempts

The courtroom heard that Susan B. Anthony Zottola first off met Shelton through and through a mutual friend and ab initio hired him to rocky up a tenant before concocting the patricidal plot.

This led to at least six botched assassination attempts inward the lead-up to the murder, prosecutors said.

Sylvester Zottola was attacked at gunpoint past a masked individual inward November 2017. type A month later, ternion men attacked him in his home, striking him on the chief with a gun, wounding him, and slashing his throat.

“The suspect orchestrated a serial of attacks both on Sylvester and Salvatore Zottola o'er the line of a yr that caused little terror for this family,” Gonzalez said. “He appears to hold done all of this purely come out of — there’s no more other word but a signified of greed, for defrayment from Mr Zottola.”

Tracking Device

Eventually, Shelton ordered for the placement of a tracking device on Sylvester Zottola’s car, allowing Sir John Ross to follow him to a McDonald’s eating place on Daniel Webster Avenue, where the dupe had stopped-up(a) for coffee.

Immediately after the hit, Sir James Clark Ross and Shelton exchanged texts, and then Shelton texted Susan Brownell Anthony Zottola to inform him his begetter had been killed.

“Can we party today or tomorrow?” Shelton asked.

Defendant Apologizes

In court, Shelton struck a different tone, repeatedly apologizing to the Zottola family.

I’m sorry. I’m really sorry for the pain, trauma, and damage i caused your family. I’ve been ready and waiting(p) years to express my regret and my remorse to you,” he said, as reported past The New York Daily News. “All I live how to come is assay to follow better, and I just need to narrate you I’m sorry.”

Salvatore Zottola told the judicature that Shelton’s apologies “meant nothing.”