Editing Carlo Gambino (section)

=== Colombo assassination ===
On June 28, 1971, Colombo was shot three times by Jerome A. Johnson, one being in the head, at the second Italian Unity Day rally in [[Columbus Circle]] sponsored by the [[Italian-American Civil Rights League]]; Johnson was immediately killed by Colombo's bodyguards.<ref name="colombo dies"/> Colombo was permanently [[paralysis|paralyzed]] from the shooting, and later died in 1978.<ref name="colombo dies">{{cite news|title=Joseph A. Colombo, Sr,. Paralyzed in Shooting at 1971 Rally, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/24/archives/joseph-a-colombo-sr-54-paralyzed-in-shooting-at-1971-rally-dies.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 24, 1978}}</ref>

Although many in the Colombo family blamed Gallo for the shooting, the police eventually concluded that Johnson was a lone gunman after they had questioned Gallo.<ref name=grudges>{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Grudges with Gallo Date to War with Profaci|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/08/79466327.pdf|access-date=November 25, 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 8, 1972}}</ref> Since Johnson had spent time a few days earlier at a club run by the Gambino family, one theory was that Gambino organized the shooting. Colombo had refused to listen to Gambino's complaints about the League, and allegedly spat in Gambino's face during one argument.<ref name="suspect shooting">{{cite news|last=Ferretti|first=Fred|title=Suspect in Shooting of Colombo Linked to Gambino Family|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 20, 1971}}</ref> However, the Colombo family leadership was convinced that Gallo ordered the murder after his falling out with the family.<ref name=Abadinsky>{{cite book|last=Abadinsky|first=Howard|title=Organized crime|year=2010|publisher=Wadsworth/Cengage Learning|location=Belmont, Calif.|isbn=978-0-495-59966-1|url=https://archive.org/details/organizedcrime00howa|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/organizedcrime00howa/page/n124 103]|quote=Joseph Colombo.|edition=9th}}</ref> Gallo was murdered on April 7, 1972.<ref name="story murder">{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Story of Joe Gallo's Murder|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/03/82222661.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 3, 1972 |access-date=November 3, 2011}}</ref>