Article: Hit man's victim recalls night 'all hell broke loose'.

Louis LaPiana accepted his paralysis decades ago, but only now is his mind at peace over how he wound up in the back seat of a car riddled with bullets by a Mob hit man named John Martorano late one night in 1973.

Martorano, 58, is due in U.S. District Court today before Judge Mark Wolf to formally plead guilty to a spree of murders spanning two decades.

LaPiana will not attend the hearing in Boston, since the gunfire of March 8, 1973, in Brighton left him a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair and a respirator that breathes for him.

For too many of the last 26 years, LaPiana has been tortured by thoughts that his best friend who died in the ...

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