Claudia Iacono killing

Montreal police arrested two more people in the killing of Claudia Iaconoa in front of her beauty salon in May 2023. Kalial Nesfield, 28, was charged with first-degree murder while Shaniqwa Parris, 31, was charged with manslaughter. Iacono, 39, was shot in her car close to the hair salon she ran on Jean-Talon St. W. in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges district. Witnesses said that a gunman waited for Iacono to enter the parking lot before shooting her five times at point blank range. Police arrived at the scene to find Iacono in her car. It collided with a building and was still running. Tyranne Andre Greenidge was charged in August 2023

Joel Richard Clarke, 28, was charged in the shooting death of Claudia Iacono. Clarke was nailed for dealing purple fentanyl, cocaine and Percocet, and had a semi-automatic, magazines, and cash when busted. Bianca Brown, 26, was arrested with him. Claudia Iacono was married to Antonio Gallo, the son of Moreno Gallo. She was not connected to crime while her husband and brother-in-law absolutely are. The killing is seen as a message to them. The mafia previously did not target wives. That line has been crossed.

Claudia Iacono was a mother of three.

Claudia Iacono was the daughter-in-law of Moreno Gallo. Moreno Gallo was closely tied to the Montreal mafia. The Calabrian mobster was deported from Canada for serious criminality in 2012. He was whacked in Mexico in 2013.

Moreno Gallo was a convicted killer and top ranking member of the mafia in Montreal in both the Catroni and Rizzuto regimes. Gallo was a victim of what Daniel Renaud of La Presse called “the slow but inevitable vengeance” of Montreal’s Sicilian Mafia. He was gunned down in an Acapulco pizzeria by a sicario that walked up and pumped multiple 9-mm gunshots at close range into his head.