Police said Francisco Rosado, 51, was shot five times outside of 2522 Holland Avenue in Allerton, The Bronx, on May 2, 2020, and that a second man was wounded and is expected to recover. On Jan. 4, 2024, Bronxite Frank Tatuili, 61, and Sayanon, 32, members of the Bronx-based Hell’s Angels were sentenced to more than a decade in prison for the killing of Rosado, a member of the rival Pagans motorcycle gang. Video by David Greene

Two members of Hell’s Angels were sentenced to prison for a 2020 shooting in the Allerton area of The Bronx that left one member of the Pagans motorcycle gang dead and another wounded. The sentencing was confirmed by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark on Jan. 5.

 

Reacting to the sentencing, Clark said, “The defendants shot the victims in retaliation for a shooting outside the Hell’s Angels headquarters four months earlier. The defendants carried out this violence in a residential area, near a busy intersection in broad daylight. They pleaded guilty and now will serve time in prison.”

Clark said the defendants, Frank Tatulli, 61, of Hollywood Avenue, the Bronx, and Sayanon Thongthawath, 32, of 53rd Street, Queens, pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2023. She said that on Jan. 4, 2024, Tatulli was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree murder and Thongthawath was sentenced to 13 years in prison and five years post-release supervision for first-degree manslaughter by Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas.

 

According to the investigation, on the afternoon of May 2, 2020, as reported, the defendants drove to 2522 Holland Avenue, where they shot at Francisco Rosado, 51, striking him five times, and Javier Cruz, 42, wounding his arm. The court heard that the shooting was in retaliation for gunfire which took place outside the Hell’s Angels headquarters on Longstreet Avenue on Jan. 2, 2020.

 

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney John Miras, homicide counsel, under the supervision of Christine Scaccia, chief of the Homicide Bureau, and under the overall supervision of James Brennan, deputy chief of the Trial Division, and Theresa Gottlieb, chief of the Trial Division.

Clark thanked Trial Preparation Assistants Jazmine Pagoada and Jonathan Romero for their assistance with the case, as well as NYPD Detective Anthony Velez of the Bronx Homicide Squad and NYPD Detective Michael Gersch of the 49th Precinct for their work on the investigation.