Vito Bonventre
| Vito Bonventre | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 1, 1875 Castellamare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy |
| Died | July 15, 1930 (aged 55) Brooklyn, New York City, United States |
| Cause of death | Gunshot |
| Nationality | Italian, American |
| Other names | "The King" |
| Occupation | Mobster |
| Allegiance | Schiro Crime Family |
Vito Bonventre (January 1, 1875 – July 15, 1930) was a New York City mobster who was a leading member of the Brooklyn gang that would later become the Bonanno Crime Family. He was arrested but then released in 1921 as the leader of a group known as the "Good Killers." Bonventre was murdered in 1930 at the start of a conflict between his gang and a rival gang led by Joe Masseria, referred to as the Castellammarese War.
Vito Bonventre was born on January 1, 1875 in the town of Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. In Castellammare del Golfo, his family was a member of a mafia clan created by an alliance with the Magaddino family in opposition to a mafia clan led by the Buccellato family. Bonventre immigrated to the United States just after the beginning of the twentieth century and settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Soon he would become an important member of the local mafia gang led by Nicolo Schiro.
Bonventre was arrested on August 16, 1921 in New York City along with Stefano Magaddino, Francesco Puma, Giuseppe Lombardi, Mariano Galante, and Bartolomeo DiGregorio for the murder of Camillo Caiozzo in Neptune, New Jersey a couple of weeks earlier. Bonventre and the others were arrested following the confession of Bartolo Fontana. Fontana identified the men as members of the "Good Killers," a group of mafioso from Castellammare del Golfo with Bonventre as their leader. Fontana claimed they ordered him to kill Caiozzo in retaliation for the 1916 murder of Magaddino's brother, Pietro, in Sicily. He also admitted that the "Good Killers" were responsible for at least sixteen other murders.
Some of the victims he named were connected to the rival Buccellato family in Castellammere del Golfo. These included three Buccellato brothers living in Detroit - Salvatore, Felice, and Joseph killed in 1917-19 and their cousin, Pietro Buccellato killed in 1917.
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