Examining the untimely death of Loyola grad and entrepreneur Mario Macri

Mario Macri

   Many Montrealers expressed shock at the callous murder of Mario Macri near his office on Lapierre, just north of Newman at 9:50 a.m.Tuesday morning.
   Macri previously owned a bar called Le Petit Mene, which was located feet from where he was shot.
  But the real family money came from Brasserie des Rapides in the strip mall seven minutes away on a motorscooter near Bishop Power and Champlain, where patrons can choose from dozens of lively young waitresses clad seductively in snug shirts.
   The Brasseries des Rapides has been in the family for since 1993 and is said to be owned by Domenic Macri, who keeps a relatively high profile on various internet platforms.

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   A variety of reports, however, describe Mario Macri as co-owner of the Brasserie des Rapides.
   Mario Macri also ran a legal loan company called Plan B, a company that offered legal loans to those in need.
   Mario Macri's social media profile is non-existent but a faithful Coolopolis reader sent in this picture from the 1991 Loyola yearbook.
   Loyola is a moderately-priced boys Catholic private school on Sherbrooke St. in NDG run by Jesuits.
   Loyola's Italo-contingent contained many upright individuals as well as some with family ties to the mob, including a Cotroni grandson and a teenager sent to avoid pressure from the New York City mob, none of which is meant to imply that the Macris had or have any ties to the underworld.
   Macri's office of Plan B Finance sits in a strip mall owned by Rosario Scalia Construction and he was shot near the Asian food supplies store that took over the space he used for his defunct bar. That second strip mall is owned by a numbered company which has four owners, three of them named Di Iori.
   Montreal's high-flying homicide squad are investigating the slaying to determine whether it could be linked to Monday's shooting of Tony Elian, who owns the posh Giorgio Gruppo Roma clothing store on the east side of Peel just about St. Cat.
   Elian's attacker sported a fluorescent vest and mask and brandished some sort of rusty old musket that looked like it might not fell a sparrow.   
   Elian's shooter launched the rifle onto the pavement after the shooting. Elian, who had endured a long string of previous attacks, survived.
   There is no word on the type of weapon used to kill Macri or any description of his assailant.
   Coolopolis asked a local loan shark whether a legit lender might attract hostility. "It’s a possibility if there was a legit and not-legit business running side by side. Or if he was giving loans at a decent rate, someone may have seen him as competition. People tried to muscle me out many times."
   Macri, as noted in his high school grad comments, appears to have been a jovial young man with good looks and charm and will surely be missed by many.