Murder of Michael Vengalli

On the evening of July 28, 1931, 5-year-old Michael Vengalli was playing on E. 107 St. in Manhattan, New York with some of his friends. At this time the Coll-Shultz gang war was happening and the place, a social club, they were playing in front of belonged to members of the Dutch Schultz mob. At the same time that Michael and his friends were out there a few men from the Dutch Schultz mob were too.

This was when a car with Mad Dog Vincent Coll and his men drove by. As they drove by they shot off a machine gun hoping to take out the men. Instead of taking out the men Michael and four of his friends were shot. Michael instantly died from his wound in his stomach and the other four were in serious condition but survived. 

On October 4th Coll was arrested. In December of 1931 Mad Dog Vincent Coll was taken to trial. People called the killers baby killers. He was acquited of this crime, but his freedom didn't last long as a few months later on Feb. 8, 1932, Schultz's men trapped him in a manhattan drugstore phone booth and machine-gunned him to death.


SOURCES:
Find a Grave
Youtube- Video of Michael's funeral
Daily News
Harlem World