There are only two ways in and out of Castlepoint Dr., a quiet residential street where a man related to an organized crime boss and his female companion were murdered early Friday morning.Investigators with the York Regional Police Homicide Unit are gathering video cam and home security video along the street since the shooting, hoping for hard physical evidence.Police have not yet released any suspect information in the murders of Cosimo Ernesto Commisso, 33, of Woodbridge and Chantelle Almedia, 26, of Toronto.Commisso was related to Cosimo (The Quail) Commisso of Siderno, Italy, considered by police there to be an ‘Ndrangheta organized crime boss.A Star investigation last year found some of his Canadian relatives had clashed with an aggressive young computer-friendly newcomers from B.C. and Quebec allied to a gang called The Wolfpack Alliance. Cosimo Ernesto Commisso lived at the Castlepoint Dr. home with his parents, and worked at the family’s two upscale restaurants in Woodbridge and Yorkville.Cosimo Ernesto Commisso and Almedia were both dead when police arrived at approximately 12:45 a.m. at the detached brick home near Hwy. 27 and Langstaff Rd. Neighbours said they heard about a half dozen gunshots.A neighbour who would identify himself only as Tom described the residents of the home as “very good people, very nice people, very hardworking people.”“They work hard, these people,” Tom said. “They’re always at the restaurant working,”Tom said that the business at one of the restaurants has suffered since someone shot up the restaurant at Christmastime.A Star investigation reported that there were two credible death threats against other men in the Commisso family in York Region last year, and that the men declined police protection from York Region police.The threats came as enemies from a group called the Wolfpack Alliance had aligned itself with enemies of the GTA ‘Ndrangheta, the Star investigat ...
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