Around 1 a.m. on July 29, 1967, a gunman stepped from the shadows on Buhre Ave. in the Bronx to pump five bullets into a parked car in which Donna Lauria, 18, was sitting–chatting with her best friend, Jody Valenti, 19, about boys. Lauria was hit in the head, neck and arm, and died. Valenti was wounded in the thigh, but managed to scare away the gunman by leaning on her car horn. Police theories included a Mafia hit on the wrong target and the gruesome handiwork of a vengeful ex-boyfriend.