<P> The war between the Five Families drags on , and Sonny , unable to break the stalemate , orders bloody raids that earn him a legendary reputation but also begins planning a plot to take out the rival Mafia bosses . Emilio Barzini , Vito 's rival and the power behind Sollozzo , enlists Connie 's husband , Carlo Rizzi , to help set a trap . Earlier , Sonny had severely beaten up Carlo upon learning that he had been physically abusing Connie . To draw Sonny out into the open , Carlo provokes Connie into an argument before savagely beating her . Weeping and injured , she telephones the Corleone compound asking Sonny for help . Furious , Sonny speeds towards Connie 's apartment in Hell 's Kitchen ahead of his bodyguards . At the Long Beach Causeway toll plaza , Barzini 's men ambush Sonny and gun him down . </P>
<P> The war between the Five Families drags on , and Sonny , unable to break the stalemate , orders bloody raids that earn him a legendary reputation but also begins planning a plot to take out the rival Mafia bosses . Emilio Barzini , Vito 's rival and the power behind Sollozzo , enlists Connie 's husband , Carlo Rizzi , to help set a trap . Earlier , Sonny had severely beaten up Carlo upon learning that he had been physically abusing Connie . To draw Sonny out into the open , Carlo provokes Connie into an argument before savagely beating her . Weeping and injured , she telephones the Corleone compound asking Sonny for help . Furious , Sonny speeds towards Connie 's apartment in Hell 's Kitchen ahead of his bodyguards . At the Long Beach Causeway toll plaza , Barzini 's men ambush Sonny and gun him down . </P>
who was killed at the toll booth in the godfather
who was killed at the toll booth in the godfather
Sonny
Sonny