Sad to say, he was shot and killed in his home tonight in dyker heights. No doubt, it was an OC hit.

The co-owner of the famed L&B Spumoni Gardens restaurant, which once nearly sparked a mob war over a pizza sauce recipe, was shot dead in the backyard of his Brooklyn home Thursday night, police sources said.

Louis Barbati, 61, was shot twice in the back, in the backyard of his home on 12th Ave. and 76th St. in Dyker Heights just after 7 p.m., police said. He died at the scene.

Police sources and say Barbati is an owner of the pizzeria.

Louis Barbati, the co-owner of Spumoni Gardens, was found shot dead at his home on Thursday.
Louis Barbati, the co-owner of Spumoni Gardens, was found shot dead at his home on Thursday. (NICHOLAS FEVELO FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Cops are searching for a white man in his 30s who wore a black hoodie and was seen fleeing the scene.

Italian cops bust ‘merciless’ mob boss who hid for 20 years
A mob war nearly erupted over the “gravy” recipe at the pizzeria, but tempers cooled after a sitdown at a Panera Bread cafe, according to testimony in a 2012 extortion case.

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Thats crazy im not from nyc or been to this pizza place but it comes up alot on relity tv and in gangland a few times. But on tv its seems on mtv or vh1 any shity show the person mentions that place.

Like tthat genos or pats them steak places in Philly i never been there but there on everyrhing fuck espn.

Was Barbati connected to any specific family? Columbos maybe? If this is mob hit theres gotta be more information about him and what happened no from Capeci, or Mazulli from NYDN?

crazy. I'm not positive but I thought bf Guerra had something to do with spumoni.. like relatives of his owned it or some shit I cant exactly remember

He was a connected guy...L&B been around for so long, Carmine Sr. used to go there every Sunday after church for Spumoni. It's been reported to be organized crime related and most likely has to to with Colombos as Barbati was connected to them.

Wonder if they got a video of the getaway car. If not it might take a while to solve this one.

Guerra is Barbati's son-in law I believe.

Yep, looks like a mob hit......

http://nypost.com/2016/06/30/owner-of-iconic-brooklyn-pizza-joint-fatally-shot-outside-home/

I was just there last week. Crazy.

I love the pizza there. RIP to the deceased.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...reader-comments

this has all the signs that it is a mob hit we will hear more details but at the moment does look mob related

looks like guerra is his son in law

I used to go there a lot. I was there a few months back. Once they find the motive, they will find the killer.

Pure conjecture based on absolutely nothing, but anyone find it interesting that this may be the first Colombo hit since I can't remember when and it happened within two months of both Michael Uvino and Michael Catapano being released?

Christopher Mignone was killed 2011 he was apparently related to the perisocs but before that the last hit i can think of was Joseph Campanella in 2001 and he survived the hit. The last murder before that must have been that excop and Wild Bill Cutolo in 1999

He had over $10K on him that wasn't taken

http://www.wsj.com/articles/owner-of-bro...382897?mod=e2fb

You come from Jersey for a Scilician? Actually I don't blame you. We used to have a pizza place called Armando's under the train station on east 16 street and Kings Highway. That was one good pizza.

I don't travel for a pizza I order they deliver. My kids go to the Spumoni garden.when they go they never bring me back nothing. You know how much I do to them. The ungrateful bastards.

But I did look for Armando's in Jersey. I was told that is where they moved to. I could not find it.

Bruno's in Clifton has a great Sicilian pie.

LOL. Sorry, Foots. I'm sure if you paid, they'd bring you back some!

If I remember correctly BF is SOI (or Ex) to the other partner, not to Barbati.

Correct " In 2009, Colombo crime family associate Francis “BF” Guerra, related through marriage to another co-owner, was accused of threatening and demanding money from a Staten Island pizzeria owner for allegedly stealing L&B’s pizza sauce recipe. He was cleared in a 2012 trial."

http://nypost.com/2016/07/01/iconic-brooklyn-pizzeria-owner-killed-holding-10k-in-cash/

There are about 1,000 armando's in jersey. However, the one i think you are talking about is on Rt 9 in the manalapan area.

I grew up on bruno's ... Great Sicilian

So im still unclear, was this Barbati officially an associate, connected, payin protection to the Columbos through Guerra what?

Could it be over a gambling debt? They keep saying its a mob hit, but im curious if anyone here has more info about the mob connection to Barbati himself or the restaurant beyond the stolen sauce incident? The daily mail article detailed that incident much more, had no idea.

http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news...shot--dead.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/owner-famed-pizzeria-fatally-shot-home-40273294

http://pix11.com/2016/07/01/new-details-...zeria-co-owner/

This was a robbery that went bad. Now they know the motive and its only a matter of time before they catch the shit head that did it.

That was no robbery (said in my best Willie Cicci voice).

His body was found with 10k still on him, this was a professional hit.

I have co workers of mine who live in Dyker/Bensonhurst, they were telling me at work yesterday that the talk in the neighborhood is mob hit....