The five Trinitarios gang members convicted in the brutal Bronx slaying of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz were sentenced today to up to life behind bars.
According to the NY Post, 25-year-old Jonaiki Martinez Estrella was the first to be handed the hefty sentence of life in prison without parole in a Bronx courtroom by Judge Robert Neary.
Co-defendants Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, 25, Jose Muniz, 23, and Elvin Garcia, 25, were each hit with a sentence of 25 years to life in prison, while 19-year-old Manuel Rivera, was given a slightly lesser sentence of 23 years to life behind bars.
Guzman-Feliz was stabbed to death by the gang members outside the Cruz and Chiky bodega after he was dragged out of the Belmont store in a case of mistaken identity.
The caught-on-camera violent slaying happened about a block from where the boy lived with his family, and shook the city as the video showed the young teen’s last moments of life.
Last June, less than a week before the anniversary of the murder, a jury convicted the five gang members of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, second-degree conspiracy, and second-degree gang assault.
There are still eight other defendants in the case awaiting trial.
