Bodybuilder Dino Tomassetti is in the grips of the police for allegedly shooting his parents at their sprawling $3.2million Long Island estate on Christmas morning. The Daily Mail reports that construction magnate Rocco Tomassetti, 65, and wife Vinceta Marsicano-Tomassetti, were allegedly shot by their son Dino Tomassetti inside their 8,751-square foot mansion in tiny Hewlett Harbor about 10 am.
Their 29-year-old son Dino Tomassetti allegedly fled the scene in a Cadillac Escalade before he was arrested in New Jersey later that night, police said.
A Nassau County police spokesman told DailyMail.com that Tomassetti was awaiting extradition to New York on Sunday. The parents survived the shooting but their condition has not been revealed.
The Tomasetti family is part of a construction dynasty formed by the late Dino Tomassetti Sr., an Italian immigrant whose chain of Laquila companies helped shape New York City’s skyline.
The prime suspect is Dino Tomassetti, a body builder and personal trainer whose social media pages are filled with pictures of him flexing his bulging muscles.
His Instagram page, which remained up Sunday, was stacked with snaps of him lifting weights and occasionally traveling to more exotic parts of the world such as Paris and the Caribbean.
The family has previously faced indictments for their alleged mob ties, and their sprawling home on Long Island is now surrounded by yellow tape as police investigate the shooting in the exclusive South Shore community, which is in the 95th percentile for public safety.
In the same article, the outlet reported that the company was indicted for racketeering in 1987 for allegedly bribing local officials to let them illegally dump construction waste in New Jersey. The scheme was allegedly organized by a member of the Gambino crime family.
The police haven’t given a motive for the shootings, but I think you can put two and two together and figure it out.
You don’t have to be a detective to see where this is going.
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