Dominic Macri, hunky entrepreneur with no criminal record gunned down in LaSalle - who pulled the trigger?

  Montreal homicide detectives have not yet solved the 9 February murder of Domenic Macri, 46, a fit and good-looking businessman with a private school education and no criminal record and who was sufficiently relaxed to post ample photos on social media, including some promoting his bar in LaSalle Brasserie des Rapides. 

 Little would suggest that Macri, a father of two, would be a target for killers who gunned him down at 9 p.m. in the garage of his home in LaSalle. 

 Macri's brother Mario, 46, was gunned down in March 2018, also in LaSalle. Mario Macri ran a legal loan business and also had a role in the bar, which has been in the family since 1993. Both murders remain unsolved.

 Macri has been linked to Montreal's West End Gang, specifically the Matticks clan faction (that description might be  redundant, as the Matticks clan has been the only real force in Montreal's West End Gang since 1984.)

 Donald Matticks - son of Gerry Matticks -  was a frequent visitor to Macri's bar, and possibly held an informal interest in the business. Donald was well-known by other bar patrons, including a woman effusive in her appreciation of her new breast implants.  

 Domenic and his ill-fated brother Mario also had also business dealings a few years back with Jamie Larammee, a foot-soldier for Richie Matticks. Larammee and his brother Cody were gunned down in a LaSalle bar on Canada Day 2013. 

 The possibility that the West End Gang had any role in the demise of the Macris appears slim. Montreal's Irish criminals have been responsible for only a couple of murders over the past three decades, partially because reliable contract killers are hard to find. The WEG's lack of murders and deaths is impressive considering the WEG was bringing in large amounts of cocaine during the drug-fuelled, blood-stained biker war.  

 Police sources told the Journal de Montreal that Macri had been associated with Vito Rizzuto in an underworld gambling scheme. Domenic's car had been set ablaze a few months prior to his death while parked outside of his home on Mario Rollet Street near Guy Boucher.  The same article cited an unnamed source as saying that some acquaintance "didn't like Macri's face," but that's, of course, a useless insight.  

 The Gazette, meanwhile, states that a police source suggested that both Mario and Domenic might have been killed due to their association with Pietro D'Adamo, who was sentenced to six years for trying to import 1,300 keys of cocaine into Canada. 

 Circumstances of how Domenic Macri was shot dead remain concealed to the public, presumably as a police holdback. So it's unknown whether police suspect that Macri was familiar with his killer, or if the shooter might have broken in and hidden in the garage. How the shooter would have known that Macri would come to the garage or how he lured Macri to the garage also remain matters of speculation. 

 Macri's name comes up a few times on the legal disputes listed on the provincial Soquij site but it appears at least some of them are an unconnected namesake. 

 Macri's only serious lawsuit appears to be a minor affair. Macris sued his insurance company Pafco, for $7,000 after he crashed his well-worn BMW X5 in March 2013. The company refused to pay, claiming that Macri had crashed the car intentionally with a Mercedes Benz. Judge Magali Lewis agreed with the insurance company and Macri got nothing.