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Salvatore Calautti left this world the same way the men he is suspected of killing went: ambushed as he sat in a luxury automobile.

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The charmed but violent life of the man, who was linked by police to so many shootings he was suspected of being something of a Mafia hit man, ended in a parking lot early Friday as he left a bachelor party north of Toronto.

York Regional Police said Mr. Calautti, 41, of Toronto was likely the prime target of the attack outside Terrace Banquet Centre, an opulent rental hall on Creditstone Road in Vaughan. James Tusek, 35, of Toronto was also killed.

Mr. Calautti was dead inside a black BMW X6 when police arrived soon after 1 a.m.; he had been shot in the head.

Mr. Tusek was found beside it, with shots to his stomach and chest; he died soon after in hospital.

While Mr. Calautti’s family was grieving terribly as they were taken to formally identify his body Friday afternoon – he had three children – underworld observers noted, on a professional level, his slaying seemed a fitting end.