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According to Kevin Weeks, " As a criminal, he made a point of only preying upon criminals, as opposed to legitimate people.

And when things couldn't be worked out to his satisfaction with these people, after all the other options had been explored, he wouldn't hesitate to use violence.

Certainly, if he thought there was a chance of this person coming back to cause him some harm, there was no sense in bothering to give him a beating.

He might as well fucking kill him.

And he did.

Tommy King, in 1975, was one example.

Altough I was nineteen at the time and not yet working for Jimmy, he told me the whole story.

Tommy's problems began when he and Jimmy had workds in Triple O's.

Tommy, who was a Mullins, made a fist.

And Jimmy saw it.

The next day, Tommy went to the Old Colony projects were Jimmy was living with his mother and tried to make amends.

He said he had been drunk and hadn't meant what he had said the night before.

Jimmy told him, ' Don't worry about it.

Forget it.

' A week later, Tommy was dead.

Tommy's second and last mistake had been getting into the car with Jimmy, Stevie, and Johnny Martorano.

That night, Jimmy put Tommy in the passenger seat with Stevie and Johnny in the back seat, and told him they were looking for someone to kill.

That someone of course was Tommy.

As they were driving around, Tommy banged on his supposedly bulletproof flak jacket and joked, ' If we don't find him we can try this out.

' The minute he finished the joke, Johnny shot him in the head from the back seat.

The bullet went right through his head, splattering blood and brains all over the place, but Jimmy just reached over, propped Tommy up, and put a baseball cap on his bloodied head.

A minute later, Johnny said he had to make a phone call and asked Jimmy to pull over by the Dunkin Donuts in Quincy.

He was gone a few minutes, supposedly to make a bet, then got back in the car and the four of them drove off.

Jimmy drove around for a few minutes and then found a spot on the Neponset River where they buried Tommy.

Later that same night, Jimmy killed Buddy Leonard and left him in Tommy's car on Pilsudski Way in the Old Colony projects to confuse the authorities.