A New York City woman who filed a $10 million civil lawsuit against members of a Mafia organized crime family who escaped life sentences in connection to her son's murder has died in a car crash.
Rose Gargano lost control of her car as she drove south on Third Ave.
According to the New York Police Department's Highway Investigation Squad, the 2020 Range Rover she was driving went left and slammed into a stanchion on the elevated highway.
She was found unconscious behind the wheel of her car by police and first responders.
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Gargano was taken to NYU Langone-Brooklyn where she died.
The NYPD is looking into the possibility that Gargano had a medical episode behind the wheel, and the city's medical examiner's office will conduct an autopsy to find out how she died.
There was a fatal crash two miles away from her home.
Jerry Gargano, one of her sons, told the N.Y. Daily News that the family is grieving over the loss of their matriarch. She will be greatly missed.
The Daily News reported that the Garganos filed a civil lawsuit against higher-ups in the crime family. Carmine Gargano Jr. was murdered in 1994 by two men.
According to the newspaper, Competiello shot Gargano Jr. twice at a chop shop and then sledgehammerd him to death.
Both men agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for avoiding life sentences on a number of charges.
The man was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The man was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed by the Garganos.
Rose Gargano told the New York Daily News that she would never let it go. My life was changed forever by those guys.
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She is survived by three sons, and her husband died during the COVID-19 Pandemic, according to her neighbors.
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