What Happened To Hitman Ray Colon?

Publish date: 2024-05-07

As the New York Post explains, after Banerjee hired Colon to murder his former colleague, Colon hired a New York drug addict, Louie Lopez, to perform the task. According to The New York Times, in 1987, Lopez shot De Noia in the face in De Noia's New York office. For a time, the crime remained unsolved, and Banerjee only became a suspect when he bought the rights back to the Chippendales touring show from the De Noia family for $1 million. Also around that same time, a U.K. Chippendales competitor, Adonis, expanded into the U.S. market.

Having killed once and gotten away with it, Banerjee turned to Colon to murder individuals involved in Adonis, based on ABC News reporting. Like before, Colon would not be the one to commit the crime. He hired an associate known as "Strawberry," but as ABC News writes, Strawberry couldn't follow through on the crime. Strawberry traveled back to the U.S. and confessed everything. With that, Colon was linked with Banerjee, and when questioned by the FBI, Colon admitted that Banerjee hired him to arrange for De Noia's murder years earlier, and Colon's cooperation influenced his later sentencing.

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