

After she did so, Filomena fled from the house sobbing. Filomena at first refused, but Luca slashed her arm with a knife and threatened her, and then she obliged and tossed the child into the furnace. He claimed that "I don't want any of that race to live." It was unknown whether he meant that it was because the child was half Irish, born of a prostitute, or that it was his child, and felt that he was doing the world a favor by removing his bloodline from it. On the day of his son's birth, he forced the midwife, Filomena under pain of death, to hurl his own son into a furnace, an act for which she never forgave herself, describing Brasi as an "unholy demon". However, when she became pregnant, Luca attempted to force her to have an abortion, which she refused. Luca was incredibly possessive of her (nearly killing Tom Hagen for sleeping with her, even though Tom hadn't know she was his girlfriend) and sometimes beat her up, but also had a strange, deep affection for her.

In the early 1930s, Brasi had become a feared street enforcer, one of the few men who did not run in with another gang, instead operating with a handful of stick-up merchants such as Luigi Battaglia.Īround this time he met Kelly O'Rourke, who became his girlfriend. Lowry, by pushing him off the roof in revenge for impregnating his mother. Soon after, Luca killed one of his neighbours, Mr. Eventually Luca decided he had had enough and killed his father with a two-by-four, shortly after his father had induced a miscarriage in his wife by stabbing her in the abdomen. " ― Vito Corleone Early Yearsīorn in an Italian family in Rhode Island, Luca had an unhappy childhood due to an alcoholic father who would frequently beat both him and his mother. Because I was the only person in the world that he truly hoped would not kill him. And since he wasn't scared of death, and in fact, looked for it. These people wander through the streets calling out "Kill me, kill me." Luca Brasi was such a man. They argue in gambling games they jump out of their cars in a rage if someone so much as scratches their fender. Biography " There are men in this world who go about demanding to be killed.
