Tommy King
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Thomas King | |
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Born | Unknown |
Died | 1975 Boston, MA, USA |
Status | deceased |
Thomas "Tommy" King (d. 1975) was a Boston mobster and member of The Mullens during their gang war against Donald Killeen and his lieutenant James "Whitey" Bulger during the late 1960s. Following Killeen's murder in 1972, he became an associate of Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang after his alledged involvement in the death of Mullins leader Paul McGonagle (later claimed by former mobster Kevin Weeks after becoming a government informant in late 1999). In 1975, he disappeared following an alterication with Bulger in a local Southie bar and was later suspected to have been killed by hitman John Martorano.