Joseph Anthony Gatto, a 78-year-old was shot and killed Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 in his home in the Silver Lake are of Los Angeles. A visionary, an artist, a teacher who was beloved by thousands of students, other artists and collectors of his many mediums, who would want or feel they would have to shoot Joe in the gut and watch him bleed out?!?

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