 | The trial for a man accused of killing a Montreal hair salon owner in broad daylight in her vehicle outside her business in 2023 began at the Montreal courthouse October 8. Joel Richard Clarke, 31, was charged in the shooting death of Claudia Iacono. Witnesses said that a gunman waited for Iacono to enter the parking lot before shooting her nine 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.
Claudia Iacono was married to Antonio Gallo, the son of gangster Moreno Gallo. She was not connected to crime while her husband and brother-in-law absolutely are.
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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. Kalial Nesfield, 28, was charged with first-degree murder while Shaniqwa Parris, 31, was charged with manslaughter. Tyranne Andre Greenidge was charged in August 2023. Cops showed up to Clarke’s home the day after the murder in an unrelated case, where they recovered the murder weapon and his cell phone.
Claudia Iacono was a mother of three. |
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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. The killing of Claudia Iacono was a contract hit.
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 into his head. |
