Since Vito was the only one who could halt one of Brasi's rampages, this made the Godfather a far more risky Don to attempt killing than the others. Brasi often claimed that he'd sooner kill himself than betray the Godfather. His almost fanatical loyalty to Don Corleone was unquestioned, and was said to have killed a Corleone soldier just for making the Corleone family look bad. These six deaths ended the famous " Olive Oil War". One of their men had managed to put the Don in the hospital, which prompted Luca's killing spree, and he might have continued had Vito not recovered enough to call him off. He is also known for killing, in two weeks, six men who attempted to kill Don Corleone at a festival. Since Luca made sure to leave no witnesses either, this made a criminal conviction almost impossible. When he went to finish off Daniello he found that he had gone through a shock convulsion and choked to death on the towel.īrasi's talent, it was said, was that he could do a job, or murder all by himself, without confederates or backup who might rat him out. He then leisurely hacked Amato to pieces with an axe. Brasi subdued both of them and tied and gagged them with towels stuffed in their mouths. One such incident involved Brasi killing off Benny Amato and Joey Daniello, two of Al Capone's henchmen hired to kill Don Corleone.
The tales of Brasi's prowess soon became legend. Don Vito Corleone intervened, covering up Brasi's crime and earning Brasi's undying service and loyalty. He tried to kill himself in his cell with a broken bottle by slashing his throat open but failed. Accounts differ as to whether Kelly died in childbirth or was killed by Brasi some days later.Īfter Kelly's death, Brasi allowed himself to be arrested, after first taking an overdose of pills that left him with permanent brain damage, slowing his speech and ability to think. Filomena later left for Sicily, where she was employed by Don Tommasino. After she did so, Filomena fled from the house sobbing. Filomena at first refused, but Luca slashed her arm with a knife and threatened her, and then she obliged and tossed the child into the furnace. He claimed that "I don't want any of that race to live." It was unknown whether he meant that it was because the child was half Irish, born of a prostitute, or that it was his child, and felt that he was doing the world a favor by removing his bloodline from it. On the day of his son's birth, he forced the midwife, Filomena under penalty of death, to hurl his own son into a furnace, an act for which she never forgave herself, describing Brasi as an "unholy demon". However, when she became pregnant, Luca attempted to force her to have an abortion, which she refused. Luca was incredibly possessive of her (nearly killing Tom Hagen for sleeping with her, (even though Tom hadn't known she was his girlfriend) and sometimes beat her, but also had a strange, deep affection for her. In the early 1930s, Brasi had become a feared street enforcer, one of the few men who did not run in with another gang, instead operating with a handful of stick-up merchants such as Luigi Battaglia.Īround this time he met Kelly O'Rourke, who became his girlfriend. Lowry, by pushing him off the roof in revenge for impregnating his mother. Soon after, Luca killed one of his neighbours, Mr. Eventually Luca decided he had had enough and killed his father with a two-by-four, shortly after his father had induced a miscarriage in his wife by stabbing her in the abdomen. " ― Vito Corleone Early Yearsīorn in an Italian family in Rhode Island, Luca had an unhappy childhood due to an alcoholic father who would frequently beat both him and his mother. Because I was the only person in the world that he truly hoped would not kill him. And since he wasn't scared of death, and in fact, looked for it.
These people wander through the streets calling out "Kill me, kill me." Luca Brasi was such a man. They argue in gambling games they jump out of their cars in a rage if someone so much as scratches their fender.
Biography " There are men in this world who go about demanding to be killed.
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