The reign of John Vitale would end when he was struck by 18 bullets fired from two moving cars at 3:00 am on the morning of October 2, 1920, no one was ever charged in his death. The death of Vitale marked the long end in a series of feuds that rocked the Detroit underworld in the early 1900s. Relative peace reigned following the death of Vitale and the ascension of Sam Catalanotte as the head of Detroit's Sicilian Mafia. With Catalanotte finding himself as the boss of the Detroit Mafia during the advent of Prohibition he quickly organized the remaining Mafia factions under a liquor combine that became known as the "Pascuzzi Combine".