History
Don Stilicho was the head of an East Coast crime family, who had been warring with Don Valerian for ten years. In need of a new heart, he went to a clinic that specialized in servicing Mob clients needing new organs; which were taken from kidnapped victims, who died in the process. He died in the operating room while awaiting his new heart, when the Punisher burst in shooting. Interrupting the operation, killing the doctor and his medical assistant, and saving the man from whom they were going to steal the heart.[citation needed]