Just realized that Copacabana (the song by Barry Manilow) never says Tony's dead.
It says,
There was blood and a single gunshot,
But just who shot who?
&
She lost her love
&
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony
But it never says that it's Rico who shot Tony.
What if she "lost her love" because Tony's in prison for life for second-degree murder?