Mario DeBellis

"Let's settle it now,... with a duel! I'll get my revenge, or die with honor."

- DeBellis to Charlie

Mario DeBellis was Phillip Cuneo's favorite Capo of the Cuneo Family. A traditionalist, he was always a man of honor and respect, and died in an honorable showdown with Charlie Trapani in the Little Town sewers, even some of the Barzinis missed him.

Biography
DeBellis was from Silver Town, Texas, born to an old western DeBellis family that were a bunch of goatherders who were able to reach the United States of America on a ship that was supposed to carry loads of olive oil to the USA. DeBellis was raised in the rough Old Town neighborhood and befriended Phillip Cuneo in Primary school, and they worked together in a string of robberies, stealing shipments of Thompson sub-machine guns intended for the Westies gang in 1995. DeBellis became his triggerman while Edwin Smoth was the strategist, and DeBellis commanded many of Phillip's men in a series of hit contracts against the hobo gangs that dominated the Old Town neighborhood.

DeBellis was wounded in a failed assassination attempt on him outside of After Hours club in Old Town, with two French gunmen shooting at him as he left the building. Two bullets pierced his chest, but his fat chest was able to survive and DeBellis was hospitalized for a month before heading to the gangster's homes and killing them with his fist with brass knuckles on, he called it an "old-fashioned revenge". DeBellis was a traditional mobster, not shooting them as a sign of respect. In the war with the Westies, DeBellis proved his honor and his cool behavior.

In 2004, he was officially accepted as Capo of the Cuneo Family, which evolved from the Belloq Gang due to the creation of The Commission. DeBellis was a key figure in the war with the Belloq Gang in 2007, where he avenged the death of his friend Mikey Perroni's death by shooting the gangsters as they left Hawk's Steakhouse, having just finished their sandwitch before their murders. DeBellis was a mentor to new Capo Ronnie Tosca, who looked up to him for an advice on the Mafia life. Just as Tosca respected him, the Mafia also respected him for his sense of mobster traditionalism, a rumor also has it he helped Johnny Mussolini to become a truck driver.

Death
During the course of The Five Families Mob War with the Corleone Family, DeBellis kept his cool and managed to hold onto the Milk Co. Factory and other distribution shops, keeping the supply line going. However, he was drawn out of his calmness when he felt that he had been slighted by the Corleones and requested a duel, and Pete Clemenza sent Charlie Trapani to accept the duel in the sewers under the Little Town Loop.

Trapani and DeBellis dueled in a traditional manner, standing twelve paces apart from one another with their guns in their holsters. Trapani fired first and the bullet grazed Mario's shoulder, he then quickly shoot him once in the head, and Mario fell down into the sewers, where he died. His men stood down out of respect for Trapani, who left the scene to recieve the hit cash.