(Washington Insider Magazine) The last six of the 13 “Trinitarios” gang members accused of the brutal murder with a knife and machete in a bodega of fifteen-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzmán Feliz were sentenced, closing one of the most graphically violent crimes in NY history.
The last six of the 13 members of the “Trinitarios” gang accused of the brutal murder with a knife and machete in a bodega of fifteen-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzmán Feliz were sentenced, closing one of the crimes with the most violent graphic evidence in the history of NY.
“Our prosecution against the 13 defendants involved in the murder ends today,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark was quoted as saying by the Daily News on Friday. “His reckless actions led to the death of the 15-year-old boy… The shocking viral video of the attack left the Bronx community, and the world, horrified at such utter disregard for human life.”
The dramatic murder “by mistake” was captured on security cameras on June 20, 2018. On Friday, four and a half years later, the last defendants were sentenced to prison in the Bronx Supreme Court on charges of first involuntary manslaughter. grade.
Danel Fernández, 26, who had pleaded guilty in December, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by Judge Ralph Fabrizio. Also on Friday Ronald Ureña (33) and José Tavarez (26) were sentenced to 15 years. In addition, Gabriel Ramírez Concepción (30) and Danilo Payamps Pachecho (26) were sentenced to 12 years. Two days earlier, Luis Cabrera Santos (29) had been sentenced to 12 years, the prosecution said.
These six sentenced will also serve five years of post-release supervision. The six defendants pleaded guilty to manslaughter in November and December. Seven other gang members had already been previously sentenced in the dramatic case.
“The shocking viral video of the attack left the Bronx community, and the world, horrified at such total disregard for human life”
Darcel Clark, District Attorney For The Bronx
Two ringleaders of the murder, Diego Suero and Frederick Then, were convicted of murder and sentenced last July to between 25 years and life in prison.
Jonaiki Martínez Estrella was sentenced in October 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder, after being caught on surveillance video plunging a knife into Junior’s neck.
The 15-year-old was dragged from a Tremont bodega and stabbed to death by several because they apparently mistook him for another boy. He still managed to run bleeding to collapse at a nearby hospital where his mother worked.
Also in October 2019, the murderer José Muñiz, who cut Junior with a machete, and co-defendants Elvin García and Antonio Rodríguez Hernández Santiago were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Another defendant, Manuel Rivera (18), was sentenced to 23 years because he was a minor at the time of the crime.
“I will never forgive them for having decided to murder my son. You are and will always be a danger to society (…) My hope is that another family never has to live with the pain of losing a child,” the victim’s father, Lisandro Guzmán, said in court in October 2019.
His Dominican mother, Leandra Feliz, became the face of the mourning and has since advocated for a bill to install panic buttons in all New York warehouses. “My son has already passed away,” she said in 2019. “They killed my son. We have to protect our future children and our community.”
At the time of the crime, Feliz was working as a housekeeper in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Barnabas Hospital, the same one where her son was pronounced dead.
In New York the interior and surroundings of warehouses are frequently crime scenes, both robberies and homicides. NYPD has alerted since last year for a growing insecurity in businesses and warehouses.
Many owners have opted to reduce hours and lock up merchandise in the face of a rise in thefts at stores, pharmacies and bodegas, including deadly attacks on employees and customers.
This article is authored by El Diario.
