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PREVIOUS STORY: A man captured in Mahwah after police said he shot his parents on Christmas morning in their $3 million Long Island mansion is a bodybuilding personal trainer from Brooklyn.
Dino Tomassetti, 29, recently of the borough's East Williamsburg, remained held Sunday in the Bergen County Jail on a detainer out of Nassau County.
His parents, Rocco Tomassetti, 65, and Vincenza Marsicano-Tomassetti, 64, required surgery following the double shooting shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday on Seawane Drive in the village of Hewlett Harbor on the island's South Shore, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice.
Their son fled in a Cadillac Escalade, they said.
Police who had responded to a call of a disturbance at the home broadcast the license plate number of the vehicle after discovering the wounded couple. What they didn't say at the time was that they were also tracking the SUV via GPS.
Shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday, New York State Police troopers requested assistance from Mahwah police as they followed the vehicle from the New York Thruway to southbound Route 17.
Police shut down the highway and the vehicle stopped near Ramapo Valley Road.
The 5-foot-9-inch, 235-pound Tomassetti -- who's recently benched more than 550 pounds and dead-lifted 725 -- was taken into custody without incident, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice.
Tomassetti is charged locally with being a fugitive from justice. He will remain held in the Bergen County lockup pending extradition proceedings. The severity of charges he faces in Nassau County will depend on the respective conditions of his parents.
Vincenza Tomassetti was shot in the head and her husband in the back, responders said. Rocco Tomassetti was considered in more serious condition, they said.
Daily Voice broke the news of the arrest Christmas afternoon.
Dino Tomassetti's late grandfather -- for whom he was named -- was an Italian immigrant whose construction company helped form the Manhattan skyline. His projects included Goldman Sachs's headquarters near Ground Zero and the Bank of America headquarters. Federal authorities also linked him to organized crime.
Rocco Tomassetti operated Empire Transit Mix, which provided the concrete for the Freedom Tower, among other projects.
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