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Gang Member Accused In Brutal Murder Carries Book About Murder Of Prosecutors Into Court

Hank Berrien

A 19-year-old gang member who has been accused along with nine of his fellow gang members of stabbing a 15-year-old boy to death in the Bronx looked like he taunted prosecutors in court on Monday with a true-crime book that delineated a prosecutor’s murder.

In June 2018, 14 members of the “Los Sures” subset of the Trinitarios gang apparently mistakenly thought Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, was a member of rival gang “Sunset.” In 2018, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said, “They allegedly drove to the territory of the Sunset group, came upon Junior and chased him into a bodega in the Belmont section, where he tried to hide.” The gang members then allegedly dragged Guzman-Feliz, who wanted to be a policeman, out of a convenience store, stabbed him repeatedly, and ran away, leaving the boy to try to run to St. Barnabas Hospital but then collapse and die one block from the hospital.

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