Owner of landmark New York pizzeria found shot dead

Louis Barbati, the co-owner of famed Brooklyn pizzeria L&B Spumoni Gardens, was fatally shot outside his Brooklyn home on Thursday night, NY police confirm to PEOPLE.

The triggerman is in his 30s and was last seen wearing a hoodie, officials said.

“I ran up and he was face-down on the stairs”, the neighbour who found the slain Mr Barbati told New York Daily News.

“Why would anybody want to do that?”

Patch called the business Thursday night, but a staffer said a manager wouldn’t be available to speak until Friday.

The popular restaurant has been featured on an episode of Man v. Food – but also reportedly nearly started a mob war over a stolen sauce recipe in 2012.

Told the police source: ‘The killer didn’t take any property’.

The legendary pizzeria L&B Spumoni Gardens is a New York City favorite and was once featured on the show “Man V. Food”.

It happened around 7 p.m. Thursday.

The suspect fired multiple shots, CBS2 reports.

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The co-owner of Spumoni Gardens was shot twice in the back, cops said..

‘By all indications, everyone who has ever come through here has always had nothing but good things say about him’. “He never had any trouble with anybody”. “This is a good quiet neighborhood”.

Two bullet holes were visible in the white fence running along the side of the house.

No restaurant employees were available to comment, and authorities stated that no arrests have been made, the Times added.

This is the first shooting in 2016 for NYPD’s 68th Precinct, which comprises Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.