It was this night, Friday, June 13, 1975, that the DeMeo crew is first known to have been involved with murder and dismemberment. Arriving at the woman's apartment complex expecting to take her out on a date, Andrei was forcefully abducted by Rosenberg, Borelli, Testa and Senter and taken to the meat department of a grocery store, where DeMeo was waiting. Henry Borelli, who had become involved with the crew shortly after Chris was shot, suggested that he use a woman friend of his to bait Andrei to a location where he could be abducted and then dealt with discreetly. After this incident, and while Rosenberg was still in the hospital recovering from his gunshot wounds, DeMeo met with his followers and it was decided that Katz had to be murdered.ĭirectly taking care of Katz was considered by the men to be too much of a risk due to the back and forth violence that had already occurred. The man who had shot Rosenberg that morning was never seen but it was assumed by Rosenberg and the rest of the DeMeo Crew to be Andrei Katz. Despite undergoing reconstructive surgery, from that point on Rosenberg wore a beard to mask the scars that resulted from this attack. His jaw was left disfigured from the bullet wound. Surviving what should have been a fatal shooting, Rosenberg was reportedly furious. Rosenberg survived through sheer luck, one bullet hitting him in the lower jaw, another his right arm and a third that was aimed for his chest merely glancing off. The revenge came on November 13, 1974, when Rosenberg opened his garage door and was struck with 3 bullets fired from an automatic rifle. Victor also testified that while still in the hospital recovering from his injuries, Andrei swore to his brother that he would get revenge on Chris and the others. Andrei's brother Victor later testified in court that Andrei claimed the two men were Testa and Senter. The situation soon escalated to violence when Katz was pulled from his vehicle and severely beaten by two men and put in the hospital. When Katz was arrested due to a stolen vehicle he purchased from the crew, he blamed Rosenberg for his predicament. Through this pharmacist, Chris Rosenberg and the rest of the early DeMeo crew met 22-year-old Andrei Katz, a man who became what was most likely the crew's first murder victim. He acquired the Quaaludes through a pharmacist connection, as well as the cocaine, which at the time could be prescribed for medical purposes. Andrei Katz murderīy 1974, a 23-year-old Rosenberg began selling cocaine and quaaludes, again backed by DeMeo. Testa and Senter, who were both full-blooded Italians, had known Rosenberg since their teenage years. Two of these friends were the Gemini twins, Joseph Testa and Anthony Senter, who Rosenberg would introduce to DeMeo and become two core members of the DeMeo crew. By 1972, Rosenberg had his friends stealing cars for him. Rosenberg was also the first crew member to interact with DeMeo socially at family barbecues and get-togethers at DeMeo's house.īetween his adept car abilities as well as his fledgling drug business, Rosenberg became successful and opened his own car shop named Car Phobia Repairs, which soon became a hotspot for stolen vehicles. DeMeo recruited Chris to steal cars, which would then be sold off through connections DeMeo had within Canarsie junkyards. Rosenberg was dealing in small amounts of marijuana and hashish when he first met Roy DeMeo at a Canarsie gas station in 1966. He was arrested again in 1971 for possession of the drug hashish, then again in 1972 for the attempted stealing of a snow plow. He was given probation rather than jail time. His first arrest was in 1970 for car theft, which started out as a felony case but was reduced to a misdemeanor. Rosenberg's criminal career began at the age of 13, when he began dealing marijuana. He reportedly did not like his Jewish last name and preferred people call him "Chris DeMeo" instead. Despite the Mafia rules that only full Italians could be made, or officially inducted into the organization, Rosenberg reportedly believed that his earning abilities and willingness to murder might eventually lead to his becoming a member of Cosa Nostra. Chris Rosenberg grew up in Canarsie on a block dominated by Italian-Americans.
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