In The Godfather, who shoots Virgil Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in the Italian restaurant?

Michael Corleone shoots Virgil Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in The Godfather.

The killings take place at Louis’ Italian-American Restaurant in the Bronx, after Michael is brought there under the pretense of negotiating peace. Sollozzo is the drug trafficker who arranged the attempt on Don Vito Corleone, while McCluskey is the police captain protecting him.

Michael retrieves a concealed revolver from the restaurant bathroom, returns to the table, and shoots both men. The act marks his decisive entry into the family’s criminal business.

Michael had initially presented himself as separate from the Corleone organization. After the restaurant killings, he flees to Sicily, beginning the period of exile that shapes the film’s later events.