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Bushawn Shelton, 39, coordinated the year-long patricide-for-hire scheme to murder Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola. Sally Daz's son, Anthony Zottola, ordered the killing because he coveted his 71-year-old dad’s multi-million-dollar real estate empire.
Sylvester Zottola, a reputed Mafia associate, survived repeated assassination attempts. Eventually, his son Anthony’s plot succeeded.
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A federal jury found Anthony Zottola, 45, guilty in October of orchestrating a plot to kill his 71-year-old dad and try to murder his brother — by sending a bumbling band of Bloods gangsters to his relatives’ doorsteps for nearly a year before they finally succeeded.
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Branden Peterson, 37, and Herman “Taliban” Blanco, 38, are the first of nine defendants to be sentenced in the murder-for-hire plot, which ended with the 71-year-old gangster slain by a fusillade of bullets at a Bronx McDonald’s drive-thru on Oct. 4, 2018.
The son of murdered New York mob associate Sylvester Sally Daz Zottola has been convicted of hiring the hitmen who killed him.