The steps of Gino Marconi's home, on the 2400 block of South 20th Street in Girard Estates, where he and his girlfriend were shot on April 10, 1999, show in a photo from the Daily News archives. Marconi was killed. Read more G.W. Miller III

by Ellie Rushing Published Aug. 26, 2025, 7:10 p.m. ET

For 26 years, police have sought the gunman behind the mob-style killing of Guerino “Gino” Marconi in front of his South Philadelphia home.

Turns out, authorities say, he lived just a block away.

Richard Leidy, 60, was charged Tuesday with murder, attempted murder, and related crimes for shooting Marconi to death, and critically wounding Marconi’s girlfriend, the night of April 10, 1999.

Leidy was arrested at his home on the 2500 block of South 19th Street in the leafy Girard Estat

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