Now granted, I'm a biased reporter, but after reading all the material I could, this is what I think happened.
Boxing Promoter Lawrence Lupo and Grandpa Curly were members of rival slot machine gangs. Family legend says that Grandpa's machines, at least in part, came from a time when he was a deputy sherriff and tasked with destroying confiscated machines. That Friday night found Curly in the Kitchen of the White Rock Inn roadhouse talking about putting in one or more slots. Lupo was in the main area with friends. Curly left the Inn by way of a back/side door and headed to his car. Lupo saw him leave through a window and motioned for one of his friends to follow him after Curly. A fight ensued. Grandpa Curly was a known badass and evidently was getting the best of Lupo when Lupo pulled a pistol out of his coat and shot and killed him. He and friends took off but he gave himself up 3 days later with a number of his friends saying that it was strictly a case of self-defence. Some weeks after the killing gangsters broke into Lupo's house and shot him in the face with a shotgun. They didn't kill him but he never looked quite the same after that.
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