The son of a slain Luchese mobster was handed a life sentence without parole yesterday after the emotional mom of the 17-year-old schoolkid he murdered chastised him for ignoring “God’s signs.”
Eight years after he stabbed Bronx schoolkid Paul Cicero, John “Fat Face” Petrucelli, 32, was forced to listen to the heartbreak of his young victim’s family.
“I will never know the joy of being a grandmother to his children,” Joanne Cicero said in an address to the court. “You have ruined every holiday, every celebration.”
She said God had warned Petrucelli about the dangers of crime as both his brother and father had been imprisoned. His dad was later murdered by fellow Luchese gangsters.
“You ignored God’s signs – life is about choices,” she said.
Petrucelli knifed Cicero hours after his pal was shot nine times by a rival gangster, fed prosecutors said at trial in October.
The shooting was ordered by Genovese crime-family associate Gene Gallo, who is Cicero’s cousin.