Junior's Killers Could Spend Life In Prison, DA Says

NEW YORK — The five men convicted of brutally murdering a Bronx teenager last summer could spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary sentenced the reputed Trinitarios gang members to up to life in prison Friday for the June 2018 slaying of Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, District Attorney Darcel Clark's office said.

Jonaiki Martinez Estrella — who was reportedly caught on video stabbing the 15-year-old in the neck outside a bodega — got the toughest sentence of life in prison without parole, the Bronx DA's office said.

Jose Muniz, Elvin Garcia and Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago all got sentences of 25 years to life, while Manuel Rivera received 23 years to life, according to the office.

A jury convicted the men of first-degree murder in June, almost exactly a year after Junior's killing shocked the city.

A group of alleged Trinitarios happend upon Junior on June 20 of last year after planning to attack a rival faction of their gang, authorities have said.

The boy was dragged out of a bodega in Belmont and slashed and stabbed with knives and a machete before dying at St. Barnabas Hospital, officials said.

Junior, an aspiring cop, has been posthumously honored with a summer camp and New York City Police Foundation scholarship bearing his name.