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This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule. It does not include people killed in internal conflicts of the Mafia itself.
1916
Thanksgiving Day- Gaetano Ingrassia is gunned down in San Francisco by The Black Hand gang members Pedone brothers. His daughter, Angelina Ingrassia, weds San Francisco city mayor, Joseph Lawrence Alioto’s uncle, Mariano Alioto the following year.
1917
Thanksgiving Day- Mariano Alioto, is murdered by Anthony Lipari, on Columbus Ave near Greenwich street at noon, as retaliation for testifying against three Pedone individuals; Anthony Pedone Sr, Anthony Pedone Jr. and Joseph Pedone, against his father-in-laws Gaetano Ingrassia’s murderers in criminal court the previous year. Three witnesses said they saw Lipara shoot Alioto and flee the scene before three citizens arrested him three blocks away. Brothers of deceased Mariano Alioto, Ignats and Giuseppe rushed the police station in attempt to avenge their brother but were apprehended and charged with carrying concealed weapons.
With fascism rule in the 1930s, the mob seemed to disappear due to repressive state action.[6]