Toni Magi seemed to be the man who couldn’t be killed. He was kidnapped in 2005, but survived. He was shot three times in 2008 but woke up from the coma

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Tony Magi could only escape death for so long.
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A Montreal construction magnate with close ties to the Mafia, Magi seemed to be the man who couldn’t be killed. He was kidnapped in 2005, but survived. He was shot three times in 2008 while sitting in his Range Rover, but woke up from the coma.
In 2009, Magi’s business partner Nick Rizzuto Jr. — son of the infamous mob boss Vito Rizzuto — was assassinated near the Montreal offices of Magi’s company, FTM Construction. Two years later Magi’s wife was shot at while driving her SUV, but emerged unscathed.
In 2013, Magi’s security guards chased off an armed man approaching his home.
But on Thursday morning, Montreal police responded to a 911 call reporting gunshots in the west-end neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Upon arrival, they found Magi lying unconscious on the sidewalk outside a construction site, shot at least once. He died shortly afterward.
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Magi and his brother Rino were prominent developers in Montreal for many years, but in the early 2000s their real estate business fell into financial trouble. While Rino became embroiled in a telemarketing fraud case, Tony’s problems started with an ambitious luxury condo project in Montreal’s Old Port, a $71-million project to convert an old warehouse on the waterfront.
The 2014 Charbonneau Commission, a public inquiry into corruption in Quebec’s construction industry, heard evidence that when the condo project’s financing fell apart, it was Vito Rizzuto — the Sicilian Mafia don who died in 2013 — who came to the rescue. The commission heard wiretaps of phone calls between Rizzuto and Magi, with Rizzuto promising the condo project would be “one of the hottest places in the city.”
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(Among those who bought in the building was Clément Gascon, now a Supreme Court of Canada judge; in 2016
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