Fox News Flash top headlines for July 31
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on foxnews.1eye.us.
A New York City woman who filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against members of a Mafia organized crime family who escaped life sentences in connection to her son’s vicious murder decades ago has reportedly died in a Brooklyn car crash.
Rose Gargano, 70, of Brooklyn, was driving south on Third Ave. at about 3:42 p.m. on Friday when she lost control of the wheel.
The 2020 Range Rover she was operating veered to the left, hopped a curb and barreled into a stanchion for the elevated highway undergoing construction near 52nd Street, according to local news reports, citing the New York Police Department's Highway Investigation Squad.
Police and first responders arrived at the scene following a 911 call and found her unconscious behind the wheel.
Gargano was transported to NYU Langone-Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead.
Police investigate after a Range Rover struck a pillar under the Gowanus Expressway on 3rd Avenue near 52nd Street in Brooklyn, New York City on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
NYPD is investigating the possibility Gargano suffered a medical episode behind the wheel, and the city’s medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine how she died.
The deadly crash reportedly happened about two miles away from her home in Bay Ridge.
"Our family is devastated and is grieving over the loss of a beloved wife, mother and grandmother," one of her sons, Jerry Gargano, told N.Y. Daily News. "She will be deeply missed."
Rose Gargano and her husband, Carmine, filed a civil lawsuit in 2018 against higher-ups in the Colombo crime family Joseph "Joey Caves" Competiello and Dino "Big Dino" Calabro, N.Y. Daily News reported. Both men were convicted of the 1994 murder of the couple’s 21-year-old son Carmine Gargano Jr.
The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after a Range Rover struck a pillar under the Gowanus Expressway on 3rd Avenue near 52nd Street in Brooklyn, New York City on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson for NY Daily News via Getty Images)
Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Competiello was acting on orders from Calabro to "take care of it," when he shot Gargano Jr. twice at a chop shop on McDonald Ave. before taking a sledgehammer to the young man’s 6-foot-2, 230-pound body, according to the newspaper.
But both men agreed to cooperate with prosecutors to avoid life sentences on a multitude of charges, including in connection to Gargano Jr.’s killing.
Competiello was sentenced in 2014 to 12 years behind bars. Calabro was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2017.
Funeral services for the acting mafia boss of the Colombo crime family, Andrew Russo, are held at Our Lady of Peace church on April 23, 2022, in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Russo, 87, paid ten million dollars to be out on bail after being indicted for threatening a union and died of natural causes. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The Garganos filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit in Brooklyn Supreme Court in 2017.
"I’ll never let it go," Rose Gargano told N.Y. Daily News in 2017. "Those guys changed my life and my family forever."
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Neighbors told the newspaper that her husband died during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she is now survived by three sons.
True Crime
The hottest stories ripped from the headlines, from crime to courts, legal and scandal.
By entering your email and clicking the Subscribe button, you agree to the Fox News Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and agree to receive content and promotional communications from Fox News. You understand that you can opt-out at any time.
