Seven Suspects Arrested in Connection with Bronx Teen’s Murder, by
Katherine Rodrigues, 6/25/18, Breitbart.
Police arrested seven suspects in connection with
the brutal murder of a 15-year-old Bronx boy, and authorities say they are looking
to make further arrests.
The Passaic County Prosecutors Office
announced Monday afternoon that they arrested six of the suspects on suspicion
of murder in Paterson, New Jersey, late Sunday afternoon, NJ.com reported.
Authorities identified the six men
apprehended in Paterson as Jose Taverez, 21; Danel Fernandez, 21; Santiago
Rodriguez, 24; Jonike Martinez, 24; Manuel Rivera, 18; and Jose
Muniz, 21.
Of the six men, all are from New York
except Muniz, who is from Paterson. All six are being held at Paterson Police Headquarters
awaiting extradition hearings Tuesday afternoon.
NYPD officials identified a seventh
suspect — Kevin J. Alvarez, 19 — and charged him with second-degree murder,
manslaughter, assault, and gang assault. Alvarez was arrested in the Bronx.
It is unclear whether police are going
to arrest and identify additional suspects. Authorities said tips on the
whereabouts of the suspects led them to arrest the alleged Trinitarios gang
members in Paterson and in the Bronx. Police say they have also identified a person of interest in the
Dominican Republic.
It is not clear whether the members of
the Trinitarios gang — a Dominican gang based out of New York’s Rikers Island
prison — are American citizens.
The gang members dragged Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, out of a Bronx bodega on
East 183rd Street Wednesday night and allegedly butchered him to death with a
machete, mistaking the innocent teen for someone else.
The teen suffered multiple stab wounds
to his neck and collapsed to the ground not too far from a nearby hospital
where he later died from his injuries.
Police say the Guzman-Feliz’s death was
the result of a “mistaken identity over a sex tape” when the teen got involved
in the deadly dispute with the gang.
A gang leader later told one of
Guzman-Feliz’s relatives that he was “sorry” about killing the wrong person.
Investigators said the victim let his
mother know he was going to the store a block away from his residence to repay
a debt or lend money to a friend, but he never came home that night.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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