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Vito Rizzuto wanted suspect in son's murder to suffer: affidavit

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Vito Rizzuto made a serious effort to find the man suspected of killing his eldest son and wanted him captured alive to make him suffer, a recently released court document alleges. 

The document, part of an affidavit prepared to help police obtain search warrants in a recent investigation into organized crime, reveals what police learned from an informant sometime in August 2014, shortly after street gang leader Ducarme (Kenny) Joseph, 46, was fatally shot the night of Aug. 1, 2014. 

For years, police sources had described Joseph as a suspect in the murder of Rizzuto’s eldest son, Nick (The Ritz) Rizzuto. Vito Rizzuto was incarcerated in the U.S. in December 2009 when his son was killed. The Mob boss returned to Canada in 2012 and died of natural causes on Dec. 23, 2013. 

Montreal Police detectives at the scene of the shooting of Nick Rizzuto Jr. on Dec. 28, 2009.

Montreal Police detectives at the scene of the shooting of Nick Rizzuto Jr. on Dec. 28, 2009.

Joseph was fatally shot eight months after Vito Rizzuto died, but according to the informant quoted in the affidavit: “Kenny’s death was a contract from the (Mafia).” 

“Vito wanted him alive to make him suffer,” the same informant, who is identified only as J, told a police investigator during a telephone call. “There were about 10 teams that were searching for Kenny.” 

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Several other parts of what the informant told the police detective in August 2014 have been redacted from the copy of the affidavit that was recently made public following a request by several media. A publication ban on what is contained in the document was partially lifted by Quebec Court Judge Thierry Nadon. 

According to media reports, police have arrested Ducarme Joseph, the owner the Flawnego clothing shop in Old Montreal where two people were killed in a shooting Thursday March 18, 2010. Montreal police Constable Anie Lemieux told The Gazette a man who was at the shooting scene Thursday was arrested Friday for breach of bail conditions. (MANDATORY CREDIT: TVA)

Ducarme Joseph is seen in this March 2010 photo. (Courtesy of TVA)

Joseph was killed near the intersection of St-Michel Blvd. and Michel-Ange St. in northern Montreal — reportedly close to his mother’s home — and no one has been charged in connection with the slaying. 

Before he died, the influential street gang leader appeared to keep a very low profile in Montreal after an attempt was made on his life just months after Nick Rizzuto was killed.

The possible motive behind Nick Rizzuto’s murder has never been made clear, but Joseph was also alleged by police sources to have been a suspect in the murder of Frederico Del Peschio, a 59-year-old close associate of Vito Rizzuto’s who was gunned down near Del Peschio’s restaurant in Montreal on Aug. 21, 2009.

According to evidence presented during a court hearing in 2010, Joseph was informed, by a police detective, on Sept. 9, 2009, that investigators had credible information there was a contract on his life. 

pcherry@postmedia.com


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