Tomasso Petto

Tommaso "The Ox" Petto (c. 1879 – October 21, 1905) was a New York mobster and leading hitman in the Morello crime family during the early 1900s.

The Morello family was a Sicilian clan based in Manhattan that became infamous for killing their rivals, stuffing them in barrels and leaving them on street corners.

In August 1904, a witness implicated Petto in the kidnapping of Vito Laduca, a Morello gang member, but no charges were ever filed.

On the evening of October 21, 1905, Tommaso Petto, living under the alias "Luciano Parrino," was on his way home from his butcher shop when he was shot to death in the village of Browntown, near Pittston and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Serving a prison sentence when Madonia was murdered, De Primo was later released and allegedly tracked down Petto and killed him.