5 reputed members of the Trinitarios gang pleaded responsible to first-degree manslaughter prices for the killing of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz within the Bronx 4 years in the past.
The 5 males are the newest to be convicted for the horrific, caught-on-camera slaying of the harmless 15-year-old in a Bronx bodega on June 20, 2018 that left New York Metropolis reeling.
Ronald Urena; Luis Cabrera Santos, 29; Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion, 30, and Danilo Payamps Pacheco, 26, pleaded responsible on Wednesday. A fifth defendant, Jose Tavarez, 26, pleaded responsible on Nov. 16, Bronx District Legal professional Darcel Clark introduced Wednesday.
The lads had been a part of a gaggle of 14 “Los Sures” Trinitarios gang members who focused Guzman-Feliz, chased him and dragged him out of a Belmont bodega. 5 different gang members stabbed and slashed the teenager again and again with knives and a machete, killing him, prosecutors stated.
Guzman-Feliz’s killers mistook him as a member of a rival gang, however the boy was simply an harmless teenager.
His mom Leandra Feliz demanded his son’s killers be held accountable, beginning a “Justice for Junior” marketing campaign that unfold nationwide together with the stomach-turning video of his homicide.
The 5 males shall be sentenced to jail phrases starting from 12 to fifteen years, adopted by publish launch supervision as a part of their plea agreements, in keeping with the district lawyer’s workplace.
“The defendants’ actions culminated within the brutal assault on Lesandro “Junior” Guzman… Since Junior was taken from his household, we've been relentless to realize justice for him,” Clark stated in a press release.
A number of of Guzman-Feliz’s greater than a dozen attackers have already been convicted and sentenced.
The 5 males who hacked him to dying had been convicted of first-degree homicide by a jury in 2019 and are serving sentences starting from life with out parole to 23 years to life.
“Los Sures” chief Diego Suero and his second-in-command Frederick Then — who ordered their followers to commit violence in opposition to the “Sundown” subset of the Trinitarios the evening the teenager was butchered — had been each discovered responsible of second-degree homicide and are serving sentences of 25 to life.
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