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Daily News du lieu suivant : New York, New York • 62

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New York, New York
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62
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i TV1 1 1 1 1 I i i i ,1 p-: -i By DONALD SINGLETON With Marcia Kramer and Thomas Rafter; A heroic college student was slain on Manhattan's upper West Side early yesterday after he shoved his girlfriend into the safety of her apartment house lobby. In doing so, he left himself outside with two armed robbers who had accosted them, police said. Salvatore Calandruccio, 22, died in St Luke's Hospital at 12:30 p.m., less than 10 hours after he was shot in the head outside S14 W. 114th St at Amsterdam Ave. The girl, Lucy Vanegas, 16, told police of the W.

128th St station that seconds after Calandruccio had pushed her through the lobby door, which automatically locked behind her, she heard a shot She ran upstairs to her apartment and called police. VANEGAS TOLD police that Calandruccio, who lived two blocks away at 420 Riverside Drive, had walked her home from the West End Bar at 2911 Broadway, near W. 114th St, where he worked part-time. According to Sgt Richard Gagliano, Calandruccio and Vanegas had said their goodnights in the building's nan row vestibule, and Vanegas had used her key to open the lobby door, when two young men walked in. One of the men brandished a pistol, believed to be a weapon, and said: "This is a holdup, give us all your money," Gagliano said.

Calandruccio reacted instantly by pushing the girl into the lobby and turning to face his killers. When police arrived moments later, they found him -fV-. 4 TOM tMOOUMBS OMLT NtwS Ida Calandruccio looking at high school graduation picture of her son, Salvatore, who was slain In doorway at 514 W. 1 14th St (right) after pushing his girlfriend Into lobby of the apartment building. lying on the sidewalk, a small pool of blood beneath his head.

DOCTORS AT ST. Luke's reported that there was no possibility of removing the bullet, which had penetrated Calandrucclo's left forehead and had men had not taken his son's wallet Calandruccio and his wife, Ida, had sent their son to live in Calabria, Italy, during the boy's Junior high school years "to take him away from this jungle," the father said. lodged near the base of his brain below his right ear. Calandrucclo's father, John, superintendent of the 420 Riverside Drive building where his family lives in an immaculate apartment, said the gun mob wo war nted white Plymouth Reliant parked in front of 62 East Village Road, Brooklyn. It is believed to be one of the cars by the hitmen.

Inside cops found two shotguns. A heavy police guard was placed on Peraino's Coney Island Hospital room. He was reported in good condition. According to Deputy Inspector Richard Olpe of the Brooklyn South Task Force, the convicted porno dealer refused to speak to police. Cops said that Peraino and his son were fleeing from at least three gunmen in two cars and ran up a flight of steps to a home on Lake St near Avenue in Gravesend.

As they began to bang on the doer, the gunmen fired at least five shotgun blasts. Joseph Jr. was struck in the chest and killed instantly. Zuraw was killed by a stray blast that tore through the window of her second-floor kitchen. Joseph Sr.

was hit in the buttocks. By DON GENTILE WUh James Harney and Frank Faso Police believe the bungled hit of convicted pprnograpber Joseph Peraino Sr. outside a Brooklyn home marks the contihuaton of a mob war to control a nationwide, multibillion-dol-lar smut ring. Peraino, 60, was wounded Monday night in a shotgun barrage that killed his son, Joseph 31, and housewife Veronica Zuraw, 52, an innocent victim. months that an attempt had been made, on Peraino's life.

In November, he was wounded outside his Bensonhurst home. In December, Peraino and a brother, Louis (Butehie) Peraino, 41, were convicted in Miami of conspiracy to distribute pornographic films. THE TWO WERE targets in a major FBI investigation that collared 45 top porn wholesalers across the country. Brooklyn detectives said they feared that a bloody war it under way to control the nation's porn distribution following the FBI bust, which allegedly put a crimp in an illegal operation from here to Los Angeles to Honolulu. The Miami-based probe has resulted in nine convictions.

Including that of Ralph DiBernardo, a Cedarhurst, L.I., 7 businessman who headed Star Dlstribu- tors on Lafayette St Sources said that Peraino took his I YESTERDAY, POLICE found a re- It was the second time in three i I 1 -i orders from DiBernardo, who reputedly has ties to the Gambino crime family. DiBernardo has been sentenced to five years in prison and $12,000 in fines, but is appealing the conviction. LAST MONTH, Albert Viggiano, 49, and his son, Paul, 27, were shot to death on a Canarsle street Albert Viggiano, who is related to DiBernardo, reportedly was connected to organized crime involving Manhat- 8 tan massage parlors. Brooklyn cops are searching for a two-door, 1981 Mercury Zephyr with license plates 615-ZCO. The car, rented by Joseph Peraino apparently was, taken by one of the hitmen following! the Monday night attack.

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