Man with reported ties to Montreal Mafia gunned down

MONTREAL (AP) — A man with high-level ties to organized crime in Montreal was shot dead north of the city, Quebec provincial police said Friday.
Surete du Quebec Sgt. Claude Denis confirmed the victim’s identity as 67-year-old Rocco Sollecito. Denis said Surete’s major crimes unit has taken over the investigation because the murder has possible links to organized crime, and they will work in collaboration with police in Laval, where Sollecito was shot.
Sollecito was pronounced