In Trafficante Sr.'s adult life he only portrayed himself as a successful Tampa cigar factory owner. had now taken over a majority of the city and started to teach his son Santo Trafficante Jr. Both Wall's and Antinori's organizations were weakened leaving Santo Trafficante as one of the last and most powerful bosses in Florida. The war ended in the 1940s with Antinori being shot and killed with a sawn-off shotgun. Wall's closest associate, Evaristo "Tito" Rubio was shot on his porch on March 8, 1938. By the 1930s Antinori and Wall were involved in a gang war for ten years, which would later be known as "Era of Blood". Antinori took notice of Trafficante and invited him into his organization and together they expanded the Bolita games across the state. Trafficante had already set up Bolita games throughout the city and was a very powerful man. A smaller Italian gang in the area was controlled by Santo Trafficante, Sr., who had lived in Tampa since the age of 18. Antinori a Sicilian-born immigrant became a well-known drug kingpin and the Italian crime boss of Tampa in the late 1920s. The first Italian gang in the Tampa Bay area was created by Ignacio Antinori in 1925. Charlie Wall's only competition was Tampa's earliest Italian Mafia boss Ignacio Antinori. Wall controlled Tampa from the neighborhood known as Ybor City, he employed Italians, Cubans and other races into his organization. Tampa crime started with Charlie Wall, known as "The Dean of the underworld", who in the 1920s controlled a number of gambling rackets and corrupt government officials. 9 Historical leadership of the Trafficante crime family.