Mob Link Alleged In New York EMT Bar Murder

Cops are investigating a bombshell allegation that the gunman charged in the coldblooded murder of an off-duty medic during a bar brawl in Queens last week was the hired hit man who blew away two Bonanno crime family mobsters 20 years ago, The Post has learned. Law-enforcement sources said cops have dusted off the cold-case file after a man nabbed in a "buy and bust" sting eight days ago offered up the tip. The informant claimed that Anthony O'Connor, 45, who was arrested 10 days ago for the murder of paramedic Erick Gonzalez during a fight in a Sunnyside bar, was the hit man in the slaying of two mob henchmen on Jan. 15, 1984. The victims, Bonanno crime family members Joseph Chilli, 30, and Thomas Sbano, 38, were found dead in the front seat of their blood-splattered convertible in a Manhattan garage. At the time detectives had their eye on two prime suspects - one of whom was a rival hood named Anthony O'Connor. They were never able to conclusively tie him to the grisly double slaying. Eight days after the bodies were discovered, O'Connor was shot five times in an upper East Side bar. Cops believed crime chieftain Gerard "Mr. Big" Chilli had put a murder contract out on O'Connor in retaliation for whacking a Chilli relative.