The person who whacked Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali appears to have lured the Gambino crime boss out of his Staten Island home by smashing into the mobster’s car, law enforcement sources said Thursday.

Investigators believe Cali, 53, was inside his Todt Hill house with his family Wednesday night when the person or people responsible rammed the mob boss’ vehicle with a blue pickup truck, prompting him to come outside, sources said.

Cali was then shot several times in the street and run over, before the pickup truck sped off. He was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital North, where he was declared dead.

Someone called 911 about the crash — in addition to other calls about shots fired in the street, sources said.

Police were seen taking a late-model silver Cadillac Escalade SUV away from the scene on a covered flatbed truck around noon Thursday.

Cali is the first mob boss murdered in the Big Apple since 1985, when then-Gambino boss Paul Castellano was gunned down at Sparks steakhouse in Midtown on the orders of John Gotti.

Investigators are probing whether Cali’s slaying was sanctioned by New York’s five families or was the work of a rogue gunman, sources say.

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