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The ongoing bloodshed that has gripped the southern Ontario underworld appears to have halted another reputed gangland figure.

Cops say that they are investigating a possible Mafia link to an early Sunday shooting that wounded an alleged associate of Hamilton’s notorious Musitano crime family.

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The hit comes hot on the heels of the attempted murder of reputed Mob boss Pat Musitano outside his lawyer’s office in Mississauga in April.

“We don’t know what the motive is,” Det. Sgt. Peter Thom told the Hamilton Spectator. “We’re not excluding the fact that it may be related to other ongoing incidents in Hamilton.”

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According to the newspaper, the victim of Sunday’s shooting is Jason Lalonde, who is well-known to police but is not a “made” member of the clan.

About 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, a triggerman rang the doorbell at 34 Marina Point Cres. in Stoney Creek.

Lalonde, 43, reportedly answered the door and was shot multiple times in an attack detectives are calling targeted and specific.