Co-owner of Brooklyn pizzeria L&B Spumoni Gardens shot dead in targeted hit

The passage reports a homicide of a local business figure with a vague reference to a past Mafia extortion plot. It provides no concrete names of organized‑crime leaders, law‑enforcement officials, or Victim: Louis Barbati, 61, co‑owner of L&B Spumoni Gardens. Death occurred outside his Dyker Heights home on a Thursday evening. Assailant described as a white male in his 30s wearing a black hoodie.