Tommaso Lomonte

Alias: Thomas Lomonte

Born:

Nation­al­ity:

Died: Octo­ber 13th 1915

Where: E116th St

Cause: Shot

Killer: Anto­nio Impoluzzo

Tomasso Lomonte, a cousin of the Morello fam­ily, was shot and killed on Octo­ber 13th 1915.

After the death of his brother, For­tu­nato, in May 1914. It was men­tioned in sev­eral news­pa­pers that Tomasso had begun to speak with police.

Tomasso, 29, had been at the home of his cousin, Rose Lomonte, at 312 E116th Street. He left the house dur­ing the evening with his cousin, they were both shot from behind after only walk­ing a short dis­tance, Tomasso died quickly and Rose was taken to Harlem Hos­pi­tal where she later died. After fol­low­ing the com­mo­tion of a crowd out­side a build­ing on E116th Street, the police arrested a nine­teen year old boy called Anto­nio Impoluzzo, he was found in bed with his clothes on, hid­ing a pis­tol. He was even­tu­ally elec­tro­cuted for the killing at Sing Sing in May 1917.