Assassination of Samuzzo 'Samoots' Amatuna was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Illinois, 1925.
Samuzzo 'Samoots' Amatuna, who seized the Chicago presidency of the Unione Siciliana amid the collapse of the Genna faction, was shot in a barbershop and died of his wounds, another casualty in the struggle over the Sicilian fraternal body that had become a prize in the beer wars. Control of the Unione carried influence over the immigrant alcohol-cooking network and standing within the wider Prohibition syndicates, making its leadership a recurring target for assassination. Amatuna's brief, violent tenure and killing, widely attributed to North Side or rival Sicilian gunmen, illustrated how quickly the presidency changed hands by murder during the mid-1920s. His death continued the sequence of Unione Siciliana assassinations that would later claim Antonio Lombardo and Pasqualino Lolordo as the Capone and Aiello factions fought for dominance.
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