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Gangbangers ordered to inflict ‘damage’ before slay of ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz
2019-06-01
[NYPOST] Bronx gangbangers were given the order to inflict "any kind of damage" they could on rivals just three days before the murder of innocent teen Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, according to court testimony Friday.

A Trinitarios ringleader, Diego Suero, issued the order to his minions, who then mistook Guzman-Feliz for a rival when they stabbed him to death outside a bodega June 20, 2018, cooperating witness and gang member Michael Sosa Reyes told Bronx Supreme Court jurors.
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Reyes, a member of the "Bad Boys" ‐ one of two Trinitarios subsets ‐ said gangbangers were gathered outside Suero’s apartment, just one block from the slay-scene bodega at East 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue, when they were instructed to hunt down members of the rival Sunset crew for recently shooting a Bad Boy member.

"Go after Sunset, you know what you have to do," Suero reportedly told the men.

Reyes said the order implied: "If you have a gun, shoot it, if you a have a knife, you stab, if you have a machete, you use it."

On the night of Junior’s murder, Trinitarios were driving around looking for Sunset members when they spotted the 15-year-old walking. They pursued him in cars, mistaking the aspiring NYPD detective for a gangbanger because he supposedly resembled a known one.

Reyes told the jury he chased a frightened Junior inside the bodega and lied to the storekeeper that the teen "had done something to my grandmother."

But Reyes told the court that he couldn’t follow through with Suero’s order after looking Junior in the face. Instead, he said, he watched as other Trinitarios members dragged Junior outside and hacked him to death with machetes and knives.

"At the moment I saw his face, my eyes changed. I saw he was scared, and he reminded me of a person that I had seen before," Reyes said, adding he felt "very bad" about the murder.
Posted by:Fred

#5  He was actually a pretty good kid - and wanted to become NYPD
Posted by: Frank G   2019-06-01 12:32  

#4  the murder of innocent teen Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz...

May I see a CV rap sheet before I decide whether that word innocent means what you think it means?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-06-01 12:25  

#3  Would it be too much to ask Mayor Warren Wilhelm (the name on his birth certificate) to come back from Iowa and deal with some of this?
Posted by: Tom   2019-06-01 11:19  

#2  Wikipedia, because I didn’t know:

The Trinitarios or 3ni are a violent New York-based gang composed of Dominican Americans. The name Trinitarios comes from three main Dominican revolutionaries of the Dominican War of Independence: Duarte (Juan Pablo Duarte), Sanchez (Francisco del Rosario Sánchez), and Mella (Matías Ramón Mella).[1] The Trinitarios were established in 1989 within the New York State prison system[2] and has since spilled into the streets, with chapters in all five boroughs of New York City. Reports of Trinitario activity have also been made in several US states, Spain, and the Dominican Republic.

Trinitarios
Founded
1989
Founding location
Rikers Island, NY
Territory
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, Washington D.C., Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Georgia, Dominican Republic, St Marteen, Spain
Ethnicity
Dominican
Membership
7,000-12,000 nationwide
Criminal activities
Drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, assault, murder, kidnapping, robbery
Allies
The 42 Gang
Sureños
Rivals
Bloods
Crips
Dominicans Don't Play
Latin Kings
Ñetas
MS-13
Vatos Locos
Folks
It is considered one of the fastest-growing gangs in New York, recruiting members from high schools local to the gang's area of activity, with the highest numbers of reports coming from Chelsea, Gramercy Park, Harlem, Inwood, the Morris Heights section of the Bronx and Washington Heights.[3] Their slogan is "Dios, Patria, y Libertad" (the official motto of the Dominican Republic), which means "God, Fatherland (or Homeland), and Liberty (or Freedom)". Their colors are red, blue, white (the colors of the Dominican Republic flag), and (most significantly) lime green.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-06-01 05:53  

#1  "RICO? Rico who?"
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-06-01 04:06  

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