THE BRONX — After the prosecution in the “Junior” murder trial spent several hours Tuesday trying to establish that five gang suspects actively took part in stabbing the 15-year-old victim on the bodega sidewalk last June, it moved on to other alleged players in the case.

Prosecutor Morgan Dolan introduced a photo tagged People’s 69 in evidence.

Detective Francis Orlando testified this man seen wearing a green do-rag was suspect Danel Fernandez.

It showed a freeze frame from the bodega surveillance camera, revealing a man with a green do-rag on his head and an American flag on his t-shirt walking into the store last June 20, shortly after 11:30 p.m.

Detective Francis Orlando testified this was suspect Danel Fernandez, who was later seized in Paterson, New Jersey on June 24, four days after Junior was killed.

The detective said when Fernandez was brought to the 48th Precinct in the Bronx on June 27, he “observed facial hair” on him and tattoos on his arms.

The arms were photographed, the investigator said.

Then, prosecutor Morgan Dolan entered People’s 15 into evidence, which was a mug shot taken of Fernandez at the NYPD precinct, the night he was arrested and charged with murder in the 2nd degree.

Fernandez was the first of several suspects charged with the lesser murder charge introduced to the jury Tuesday by freeze frame or photographs.

Jose Tavarez was the second suspect shown Tuesday afternoon from surveillance images.

Detective Orlando testified, “there was a visible tattoo on his neck. There was the numbers 1-5-7.”

PIX11 reported last summer the numbers 1-5-7 stand for Trinitario in good standing.

Fourteen men arrested in connection with the murder of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz are alleged to be members of the Trinitarios, a Dominican-American gang.

Detective Orlando testified that Tavarez was picked up in Paterson, New Jersey, too, at a house located at 260 East 24th Street.

After this, prosecutor Morgan Dolan introduced still photos of a black Acura that was captured on surveillance near the bodega at Bathgate Avenue and East 183rd Street in the Bronx.

The detective testified this suspect had a public Facebook page under the name Gabriel Ramirez.

These images were entered as People’s 73 and 74 in evidence.

The prosecutor then asked Detective Orlando about another suspect in the murder 2 case, Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion.

The detective testified this suspect had a public Facebook page under the name Gabriel Ramirez.

People’s 76 in evidence was a photo of Gabriel Ramirez from Facebook, the detective said.

The Acura was later impounded from 4053 Monticello Avenue.

Detective Orlando started to say something about its owner, but the defense objected, and Judge Robert Neary sustained the objection.

Finally, there was testimony about a grey Honda Accord owned by another suspect, Luis Cabrerasantos.

The Honda was stopped by Connecticut state troopers on I-84, weeks after Junior was killed.

The prosecution introduced more surveillance stills from the night of Junior’s murder, allegedly showing suspect Elvin Garcia—wearing white shorts and a white t-shirt—getting into the back seat of a gray Honda Accord, behind the driver.

Last Thursday, a DNA expert from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner had testified that Elvin Garcia’s blood was found on the back seat of a gray Honda Accord and also on the back seat of a white 2011 Acura.

It’s not clear how the Acura came into play for Garcia, since the prosecution is alleging he left the Junior scene in the gray Honda.

Perhaps future testimony will clear that up.

In pre-trial hearings, there was testimony that a bleeding Garcia was advised to seek treatment for a hand wound at a hospital.

Garcia allegedly crossed over into Manhattan to seek treatment.

THE BRONX — Legal fireworks exploded at the Junior trial Thursday, when defense attorney Toni Messina cross-examined an NYPD detective about the slain teen’s alleged ties to a “baby” division of the Trinitarios gang — and the prosecution objected strenuously.

Speaking of the Trinitarios, Messina stated to Detective Francis Orlando of Bronx Homicide, “That group has a ‘Baby Sunset’ part to it that includes kids as young as 14 and 15 years old.”

The detective had earlier acknowledged, under cross-examination, that certain “sets” of the gang hung out on specific streets in the Bronx and the Sunsets were affiliated with Adams Place.

Messina asked the detective if Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz was on his way to Adams Place, shortly before the 15-year-old was chased and fatally stabbed outside a corner bodega in June 2018 near East 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue..

The detective responded, “Yes.”

Messina continued a bit later, “There are photos of the Baby Sunset group available on downloads.”

Then, prosecutor Morgan Dolan objected more forcefully when Messina asked the detective, “Did you see photos of Junior actually giving gang signs?”

The jury was sent to lunch, and Judge Robert Neary held a hearing about the line of questioning, outside the jury’s presence.

“What is the relevancy of gang affiliation in this case?” prosecutor Dolan asked. “The character of the deceased is not relevant to this case.”

Defense attorney Messina responded, “They want to stop us at the door … because it portrays the decedent in a much different light.”

Referring back to an earlier line of questioning, where Detective Orlando acknowledged he’d investigated whether Junior was the victim of a gang retaliation for a shooting a night earlier, Messina continued, “They were never intending to kill this person (meaning Junior). It was a ‘tit for tat’ kind of thing. That’s our defense.”

Prosecutor Dolan then responded, “The perception of Junior outside these four walls is frankly not relevant. The character of the victim, unless it goes to justification, is not relevant in a murder case.”

Junior’s parents were not in the courtroom during the cross-examination, continued after lunch Thursday.

After the lunch break, Judge Neary ruled the defense could ask questions pertaining to the suspects having a “perception” that Junior was part of a rival set, on the night the teen was killed, but “evidence the victim was actually in a gang is inadmissible at this point.”

He said about Detective Orlando, “With this witness, I’m not going to allow any continued questioning about alleged gang affiliation.  This is not the appropriate witness to try to elicit that from.”

Yet when defense attorney Kyle Watters got his turn later in the afternoon, he showed an exhibit marked Defense Exhibit C, which was first introduced by defense lawyer Toni Messina.

The photo shows a group of teens and young men, some making hand signals. The picture had been downloaded from one of the suspect’s phones and has a graphic at the bottom slugging the picture Sunset gunset.

Watters asked the detective, “If you look at the photo in the back, the person in the black shirt with his arm extended over his head, do you know if that is Junior Guzman?”

Detective Orlando responded forcefully, “That is not Junior Guzman.”

WATCH — Mary Murphy reports on the cross-examination on Facebook Live:

THE BRONX — A cooperating witness in the Junior case who turned himself in to police last June 23 was not formally arrested until August 16, almost two months after the teen’s bodega slaying, it was revealed at the trial Thursday.

His name is Michael Reyes, known as “Sosa,”—and prosecutor Morgan Dolan had said in her opening statements that Reyes was a member of the “Bad Boys” set of the Trinitarios gang.

On Thursday, defense attorney Toni Messina elicited more information about Reyes’ importance to the prosecution’s case from Detective Francis Orlando of the Bronx Homicide Squad.

“Was he one of the first people to go into the bodega?” Messina asked.

“Yes,” the detective responded.

“Is he now a cooperator in this case?” Messina queried.

“Yes,” the detective replied again.

Messina then showed a freeze frame of murder suspect Kevin Alvarez taken from surveillance inside the bodega.

“Is he one of the men who grabbed Junior, hit him and dragged him out?” Messina asked.

“Yes,” said Detective Orlando.

“Is he now a cooperating witness?” Messina asked, referring to 20-year-old Alvarez.

“Yes, he is,” Orlando replied.

Messina then made a statement, “None of them told you there was ever a plan to kill Junior,” which drew a prosecution objection that Judge Robert Neary sustained.

Later, when the prosecutor had a chance to conduct re-direct with the detective, Dolan asked why Reyes and Alvarez were allowed to make plea deals with the police and prosecutors.

“Because we had no witnesses to identify anybody in the case,” Orlando said.

Earlier, Amy Attias—who represents Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago—reminded the jury and the detective more than once that Kevin Alvarez was one of two people who dragged a terrified Junior out of the bodega on Bathgate Avenue to his fate on the sidewalk.

THE BRONX —  Defense attorneys representing five murder defendants accused of fatally stabbing 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz last June tried to use the infamous surveillance footage of the teen’s death to their advantage in court on Thursday.

Martin Goldberg, lawyer for 22-year-old Jose Muniz, showed a Bronx homicide detective “freeze frames” of his client walking away from the pack of sidewalk attackers before Junior received the lethal knife wound to his neck that killed him.

The teen victim was on the ground at the point after the initial assault.

“Junior is not actually stabbed in the neck until after he gets up from the ground,” Goldberg noted. “It’s fair to say Mr. Muniz has disengaged and is walking away before Junior is stabbed in the neck.”

“Running away,” Detective Francis Orlando responded.

Earlier, the defense attorney had asked the investigator if he had seen the autopsy report, which did not seem to indicate Junior was killed by any machete injuries.

“He was coming at him with a machete blade down, so I’m sure he was causing some injuries,” Detective Orlando said.

Another defense attorney, Amy Attias—who represents defendant Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago—continued to question whether her client was the person seen with a dark hoodie briefly coming into view near the end of the assault.

She also questioned another alleged image of her client on the sidewalk.

“Is that the best photo of the person’s face?” she asked Detective Orlando.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the best photo,” the detective replied. “But it is a photo of your client.”

Attias also questioned the investigator about what, if anything, he knows about gang rules and discipline.

She noted there was a Trinitarios protocol where several gang members would hit another member for up to 21 minutes if they didn’t follow orders from a leader.

Attias concluded her cross examination by asking the detective, “You have no DNA connecting Antonio to this case, correct?”

The detective responded, “Correct.”

She asked again, “You have no DNA connecting him to this case, correct?”

Detective Orlando once again responded, “Correct.”

During other testimony Thursday, Detective Orlando revealed the white Acura allegedly used as one of four getaway cars was found in a parking garage located at 1862 East Tremont Avenue.

At one point, the detective said Junior’s ripped clothing was in a big, brown bag the prosecutor handed him, a bag that had been sealed.

The clothing was ripped when emergency room personnel at St. Barnabas Hospital frantically tried to save Junior’s life.

The clothing was not tested for DNA evidence because prosecutors and the criminalist felt there would be too much different genetic material on the clothes.

There was also discussion about a New York Times surveillance video that had been obtained from the Adams Place area where Junior was heading, before he was chased to the bodega.

Detective Orlando acknowledged it showed some cars involved in the eventual chase cruising near Adams Place, but he said when he tried to get the video in September last year he learned “the video was no longer available.”

THE BRONX — In a dramatic-yet-disturbing end to week two of the Junior trial, the prosecution finished the day Friday with multiple views of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz’s futile run seeking safety, and a slow-motion view of his murder. At least one female juror was visibly teary-eyed watching the footage.

Eric Newman, a video technician with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, introduced a compilation of surveillance footage he edited together from 13 different camera angles.

The compilation showed the final block of the “Junior” chase on East 183rd Street in the Bronx, the teen’s efforts to hide behind a bodega counter, the dragging of the panicked 15-year-old to the sidewalk, and a close up look at the multiple assailants who set upon him with knives and a machete.

The attack footage went into slow motion at times, with each of five accused killers highlighted in the video.

The prosecution alleges one accused stabber, Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, was in the footage wearing a dark hoodie.

Junior’s mother came into the courtroom near the end of the day. She kept her head down during the 20 minutes them footage was played in silence.

A court advocate rubbed the mother’s back at times to comfort her.

One juror wiped tears from her eyes after holding her hand to her mouth in apparent horror.

The jurors were watching close-up views of the attack they had never seen before.

They saw footage of Junior stumbling back into the deli with a lethal neck wound, the teen slumping over the counter for a second before he was directed to leave and go to the hospital a block away.

The panel saw an annoyed customer with bags of potato chips in his hands point to the door in the video.

Also, there was another heartbreaking clip shown of Junior throwing his arms up in the air on the sidewalk, apparently signaling women in one apartment that he needed help.

Junior’s mother was led away by court officers shortly after the video was played. “I didn’t want the video,” she told PIX11.

The prosecution certainly left the jury with something to think about over the weekend.

The BRONX — A detective from the NYPD Bronx Gang Squad gave jurors in the “Junior” trial an education on how the Trinitarios gang works.

“If you don’t follow an order, you’re going to be considered a ‘3-5-7,’” Detective Charne Jimenez told the jury.

“You’re no good, a rat. You’re gonna’ be ‘green lit’ to be assaulted or killed.”

Detective Jimenez actually made the statement under cross-examination, after telling prosecutor Morgan Dolan in direct testimony that he had debriefed an alleged Trinitario on July 29th—the same day as the Bronx Dominican Day parade—about the stabbing of a 14-year-old, two days before Junior was killed.

Amy Attias, who represents Junior murder suspect Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, asked the Gang Squad cop about the violent infighting going on between the Sure and Sunset divisions of the Trinitarios, in the weeks leading up to the murder of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz.

Attias asked the detective, “Is it accurate that none of those physical fights resulted in anyone being killed?” Attias asked.

“Yes,” Jimenez responded.

“No one was killed?” Attias reiterated.

“No,” said the detective.

Jimenez said of the other violence, “You had knives, machetes, and you had guns in a few incidents.”

Attias asked the detective about a shooting victim with the street name “Chino” who was shot on the side of his eye less than 48 hours before Junior was killed.

Detective Jimenez said “Chino” was a member of the “Atom” set of the Trinitarios.

Jimenez also talked about “disciplina” in the Trinitarios gang, where an errant member could be hit in the buttocks area or “on the extreme, maimed or really hurt or killed.”

Jimenez explained there are three bosses in the gang. The first is known as “Duarte,” the number two is “Sanchez,” and the third is “Mejia.”

The names are taken from Dominican freedom fighters that won independence for the Dominican Republic from Haiti.

Kyle Watters, defense attorney for Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, asked the cop more questions about gang operations.

To become a Trinitario, “you start out as a ‘probie,” the detective said.

Watters asked, “Does 9-0 mean probation?”

The detective said yes.

When Watters asked how prospective gang members become “full fledged,” the detective responded:

“You have to do ‘missions.’ Earn money. They’ll be a certain period where you’re blessed by the boss and you’ll receive paperwork.”
Detective Jimenez noted of the Trinitarios, “They’re very, very picky in accepting people.”

Toni Messina, attorney for murder defendant Manuel Rivera, brought up the Trinitarios logo, D.P.L.—which stands for Dios (God), Patria (Fatherland) and Libertad (Liberty).

Then Messina asked the detective how “hits” are ordered.

Detective Jimenez told the jury what a gang boss might say to a member:

“If you see an individual on the street, break him,” the detective explained.

“Sometimes, they can get carried away. Instead of just a beating or stabbing, it can lead to death.”

PIX11’s Mary Murphy recaps week two of the Junior Trial

THE BRONX -- In a quiet courtroom, the star “Junior” trial witness, Kevin Alvarez, started crying on the witness stand, as the prosecutor asked him to watch surveillance footage of what he did to 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman Feliz behind a bodega counter last June 20.

The panicked teen, who had just been chased by a pack of men for blocks, was trying to hide behind a small door that separated the back of the store from the public.

Finally, Alvarez said a deli worker opened the door and told Alvarez and his crew to “take it outside.”

“The kid was pushing the door, he was putting his behind — his shoulder — against it,” Alvarez testified of Junior.

“He’s saying, ‘Stop!’ He didn’t have nothing to do with what we were saying.”

Alvarez and his associates were telling bodega workers that Junior was connected to the Sunset division of the Trinitarios gang, which had shot another gang member two days before.

Police said Junior was a victim of mistaken identity.

Prosecutor Morgan Dolan then asked Alvarez what he did to Junior, when the teen’s efforts to keep the door closed were futile.

“I punched him in the face. A few times, face and body,” Alvarez told the jury.

“He falls back onto the floor and also the sink,” Alvarez continued, speaking of Junior. “I started to kick him in the body a few times."

Alvarez said another suspect known as “Menor” was also kicking Junior.

“I started to drag him out of the store,” Alvarez said, noting that he was following orders from the #2 in the Sures set to “bring the kid outside.”

“He grabbed like this rack on the floor holding chips and he grabbed onto the door and the fridge. I see Canelito with a machete.”

Prosecutors told the jury earlier in the trial that Canelito is defendant Jose Muniz.

Muniz angrily left the courtroom before the afternoon session started, because he told Judge Robert Neary through an interpreter that he wasn’t getting access to hard copies of evidence seized from cell phones in the case.

Judge Neary said he didn’t want hard copies of certain evidence provided to jailed defendants because “History has proven these things find their way around the facility, posing a danger to civilians and government employees.”

After Alvarez testified about dragging Junior to the sidewalk, he vividly described what happened during the 20-second stabbing and assault of Junior.

He said he saw one defendant using “a regular kitchen knife” as he was running toward “the kid.”

Junior's mother reacts to Alvarez' testimony after court Monday:

He identified all five murder defendants as taking part in the sidewalk attack, including Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, known as “Welfinito.”

Prosecutors said “Welfinito” was wearing a dark hoodie during the stabbing, and Alvarez confirmed it—even though defense attorney Amy Attias had noted the surveillance footage of her client was “blurry.”

“I looked up and I saw Welfinito with his hoodie on, running towards the kid,” Alvarez said. “I saw him standing over the kid, stabbing him."

Alvarez said Junior “kept fighting back.”

Mary Murphy recaps Monday's "Junior Trial" testimony on the Mary Murphy Files:

THE BRONX —Kevin Alvarez, the star prosecution witness in the “Junior” trial, took the stand late Monday morning and identified five murder defendants as fellow members of the Trinitarios gang who took part in the chase and attack on 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman Feliz last June.

Alvarez was infamous for getting captured on surveillance storming into a corner bodega June 20, 2018, and dragging the terrified Junior out to the sidewalk, where a mob fatally stabbed the teen with knives and a machete, according to officials.

Alvarez pleaded guilty in the case nearly three weeks ago and agreed to testify for the prosecution.

Wearing a lavender, buttoned shirt with navy chinos — and with his voice quavering at times — the 20-year-old witness talked about a convoy of cars looking for rivals from the Sunset division of the gang, when the group came upon Junior about 11:30 pm near the “Little Italy” section of the Bronx.

The gang was allegedly seeking out Sunset members because a leader of the Trinitarios' "Sures" set, Diego Suero, blamed Sunset for shooting another gang member in the eye a couple of nights before.

Alvarez said one gang member, known as “Welfinito,” yelled out a car window at Junior, using the Trinitarios phrase “Popo.”

“Welfinito and a few members of the Sures started approaching him and asking him certain questions,” Alvarez testified.

“The only thing I heard him say was that he wasn’t ‘Sunset,’” Alvarez said.

“He looked very surprised and scared,” Alvarez testified.

“All the guys made a gesture like they were gonna hit him and he started running,” Alvarez said, referring to Junior.

Alvarez told the jury he was driving his mother’s gray Acura in the chase “and I attempted to block the kid from running past the hospital,” referring to St. Barnabas Hospital on Third Avenue and East 183rd Street in the Bronx.

Alvarez said Junior managed to run across the street past him “toward the deli,” referring to the Cruz and Chiky bodega on Bathgate Avenue.

Alvarez parked the car, he said, and saw a set leader known as “Colita.”

He testified, “I was told by Colita to go in the store and take the kid out.”

Alvarez said he went into the store with two gang members: “Menor” and “Sosa.”

He testified that Junior “was behind the counter, trying to hide and trying to go behind the owner of the deli.”

“I was talking to the workers in the deli that he was part of some shooting that happened to ‘Chino,'” Alvarez said.

Alvarez told the prosecutor he had no direct knowledge that Junior belonged to Sunset.

“At that point, the deli guys told me they don’t want any problems. Take it outside,” Alvarez said.

“At that moment, one of the deli guys opened the door that was blocking the back.”

This gave Alvarez access to Junior.

The court then broke for lunch.

Alvarez had earlier explained how he’d only been involved in the Los Sures set of the Trinitarios as a probationary member for four months last year.

He said he had actually studied criminal justice briefly in college and left the U.S. Army with an injury, before getting involved with the gang in February 2018.

“I kind of thought it was a little cool,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez testified there were three leaders of the Los Sures, two men in charge of discipline, and two guys leading security for members who were considered part of a “town.”

“I was made aware that sometimes you would have to jump people or stab people,” Alvarez said.

He identified defendant Jonaiki Martinez Estrella as a probationary gang member called “Pio,” and observed Trinitarios would move up the ladder by carrying out missions.

Other defendants on trial had already attained the status of soldier.

Estrella, the alleged probationary member, is accused of plunging a knife into Junior’s neck near the end of the attack, slicing the 15-year-old victim’s jugular vein.

Mary Murphy recaps Monday's "Junior Trial" testimony on the Mary Murphy Files:

THE BRONX -- In a stunning development at the “Junior” trial Tuesday, star witness Kevin Alvarez revealed he will get time served for his role in the teen’s chase, beating, and death — if he truthfully testifies in this and potential future trials.

Alvarez testified about his four page cooperation agreement with the Office of the Bronx District Attorney, which was entered into evidence.

He revealed that he had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree, which normally carries a sentence of 8 1/3 to 25 years — and another count of conspiracy in the fourth degree, a non-violent felony.

“Have you been offered two potential sentences?” Assistant District Attorney Morgan Dolan asked the 20-year-old Alvarez, who said he was once a probationary member of the Trinitarios gang.

“Yes, ma'am,” Alvarez replied.

The prosecutor asked what happens if he doesn’t truthfully testify at this and future trials.

“I get sentenced to 25 years,” Alvarez said.

Then came the headline-making revelation.

“What happens if you satisfy the agreement?” the prosecutor continued.

“I get sentenced to time served on conspiracy in the fourth degree,” Alvarez replied.

There were audible gasps from several people in the courtroom.

Alvarez had testified on Monday about storming into the Cruz & Chiky bodega last June 20, saying he punched Junior in the face and kicked him about the body repeatedly, before dragging him out to the sidewalk, where five attackers stabbed the 15-year-old Junior with knives and a machete.

Attorney Christopher Carrión, who speculated on PIX11 News “Mary Murphy Files” Monday night that Alvarez likely had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, was asked about this agreement Tuesday.

“It’s a sweetheart deal,” Carrión said. “He has a big incentive to tell the truth, because he has a Manslaughter conviction of 25 years hanging over him if he lies or doesn’t cooperate."

“If he satisfies the conditions, the Manslaughter plea gets withdrawn and vacated, making him a free man,” Carrión said.

But it’s unclear what the future hold for Alvarez, who testified he’s now considered "3-5-7" ... no good ... by the gang.

He’s been held in protective custody since making the deal.

“Even when he’s freed, he will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life,” Carrión said.

THE BRONX — He knew they had killed the wrong guy.

Just after the stabbing death of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz last June 20, members of the Trinitarios were examining a photo of gang members to make sure they had killed the right target.

Kevin Alvarez, who has since become the star witness in the trial, looked at the photo and came to a dreadful conclusion: “When I looked at the picture,” he testified  Tuesday, “I didn’t see the kid we had chased and stabbed.”

The gang members were meeting that night on Boston Road in the Bronx to make sure they had gotten the right person,  Alvarez said.

The photo in question was of the Sunset crew that was feuding with the Los Sures set, who orchestrated the bodega attack.

The photo allegedly came from the cell phone of the No. 2 leader of the Sures set, Frederick “Colita” Then.

Alvarez testified on Tuesday that the Los Sures boss, Diego Suero, who held the meeting at his apartment, was questioning who from that photo was the guy that they had just killed.

Alvarez said they were confused, pointing to two different people in the picture that was captioned, "Sunset gunset."

“Diego was asking Colita and [Jose Muniz] Canelito, are we sure that that’s the right person, and the response was ‘Yes, it’s him,’” Alvarez recalled.

But Alvarez knew they'd made a terrible mistake.  Indeed, Alvarez told the jury on Monday that Junior kept insisting he wasn’t affiliated with Sunset, as he fought desperately for his life.

The defense had already entered this photo into evidence last week, asking a Bronx homicide detective if Junior was raising his arm and throwing a gang sign with the Sunset crew.

Det. Francis Orlando said emphatically that Junior was not in the photo.

Alvarez testified he was so upset by what had happened outside the bodega that he left the apartment as the gang kept examining the photo.

“I guess I didn’t agree with what happened,” Alvarez said.

Alvarez said he gave a ride to other gang members who were present at  the stabbing.

Later, lead prosecutor Morgan Dolan asked Alvarez to circle all the people from a Los Sures gang picture who were either present at Suero’s apartment before Junior’s chase, at the scene of the murder, and then later back at Suero’s apartment.

Including himself, he circled at least eight people in that picture.

Late Tuesday afternoon, the prosecution showed more photos to Alvarez, and Judge Robert Neary grew frustrated. He ended testimony early and, outside the courtroom, spectator Jennifer Wiesel reported a pregnant relative of a murder defendant yelled at Junior’s mother, calling her a foul word.

As a precautionary measure, NYPD detectives put the mom, Leandra Feliz, into an unmarked police car inside a courthouse garage and whisked her away.

Earlier in the day, Feliz was in court when Alvarez revealed the cooperation agreement he signed with prosecutors, which could allow him to leave prison someday with “time served.”

Feliz told PIX11 by phone that she wanted to hear more about the deal before making a comment.

Alvarez returns to court Thursday for cross-examination.

THE BRONX — Before 20-year-old Kevin Alvarez even took the stand this week as the controversial star witness in the “Junior” murder trial, the Bronx District Attorney’s office wanted to explain to the jury why he was given a plea deal.

Lead prosecutor Morgan Dolan asked Detective Francis Orlando from the Bronx Homicide Squad why two gang members involved in the chase of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz were permitted to make cooperation agreements.

“Because we had no witnesses to identify anybody in the case,” Orlando replied.

That’s the key reason why Alvarez, who beat and dragged Junior from the bodega, was permitted to plead guilty to Manslaughter 1 and Conspiracy in the 4th degree — with the chance to get out of prison with “time served” — if he truthfully testifies in this and future trials.

Alvarez told the jury he was a probationary member of the Trinitarios gang last year, and he gave the name and rank of the five alleged members of the Los Sures set charged with fatally stabbing 15-year-old Junior on June 20.

“He had a lot of information to trade,” said retired NYPD Detective Michael O’Keefe, who investigated gang homicides during a long career with the police department.

“They don’t have to like it,” O’Keefe said of trial followers upset with the Alvarez plea deal. “But it’s the way things work, especially in a gang case.”

“It’s unrealistic to think they were all going to get convicted of murder.”

O’Keefe pointed out there are many gang-related cases where no one talks, so the murder doesn’t get solved.

In Junior’s case, his age and the graphic nature of the violent attack captured on surveillance led many in the public to contact police.

Alvarez turned himself in the weekend after the murder and was the first one officially arrested, then charged with murder in the second degree.

“The first one in the door gets the deal,” O’Keefe said.

But Alvarez was likely the second guy in the door.

During pre-trial hearings, a Bronx detective testified a Witness A showed up at the 48th Precinct early Saturday morning, June 23, 2018.

The witness said he was in one of the getaway cars after the June 20 stabbing with two defendants now charged with Murder 1. He told cops about threatening statements they made in the vehicle.

Prosecutors identified Michael Reyes as the other cooperator during direct examination of Detective Orlando last week. We learned in court that Reyes was quietly arrested in the case in mid-August 2018.

Reyes belonged to the “Bad Boys” set and didn’t know as many Sures members as Alvarez allegedly does.

“You gotta let one or two go,” O’Keefe said about murder defendants in a huge case like this.

Including the two cooperators, 15 men were charged in connection with Junior’s death.

O’Keefe talked about the cooperation agreement reached by a Howard Beach teen more than 30 years ago in the racially-motivated chase of three black men in the Queens neighborhood.

A pack of teens who’d been at a party starting hurling racial slurs at the men when they stopped at New Park Pizza Parlor on Crossbay Boulevard.

A large mob started pursuing the black men with weapons, with one of those being chased — Michael Griffith — running onto the Belt Parkway, where he was hit and killed by a car.

Another man, Cedric Sandiford, was viciously beaten.

A 17-year-old suspect who took part in the chase had a brother in the NYPD and decided to cooperate with Special Prosecutor Charles Hynes, who was appointed to the case.

Robert Riley ended up testifying against four teens in the first trial, which ended up with three of them convicted of manslaughter and assault.

One of the convicted, Jon Lester, received a maximum sentence of 30 years.

Another received a penalty of six to 18 years.

Yet another got a maximum of 15 years.

After Riley testified at two trials, he was sentenced to six months in jail, five years probation, and 400 hours of community service.

“He came forward because he knew he was in trouble,” O’Keefe said. “He was chasing these guys. He was involved in the case to a certain extent. He didn’t want to be involved in murder.”

THE BRONX — The distraught mother of slain teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz had to be carried out of a Bronx courtroom Thursday, after she started screaming and shaking in her seat during cross-examination of star witness, Kevin Alvarez.

Defense attorney, Kyle Watters, was hammering the 20-year-old Alvarez about his role in the chase, beating, and dragging of Junior, 15, to his eventual stabbing by five men on a sidewalk outside a Bronx bodega.

He was challenging Alvarez’ version of what happened the night of June 20, 2018.

When Watters showed footage of Alvarez forcing his way through a glass partition door that separated Junior from the gang members, he forcefully asked the witness, “But for you pushing through that door, Junior would have stayed on the other side of the door.”

The footage later showed Junior being dragged out of the bodega.

It was during another piece of the surveillance — when a mortally wounded Junior stood alone on the sidewalk, clutching his lethal neck wound after being turned away from the bodega a second time — when his mother, Leandra Feliz lost it.

“No, no, no!” she started screaming.

Her body began shaking, she was pounding her fists on the spectator bench, and it looked like she was about to faint.

That’s when court officers surrounded her and nearly carried her out of court, as Feliz continued screaming in the hallway.

Court officers told startled camera crews standing behind a barrier not to shoot any footage of what they called a “medical emergency.”

Later, an FDNY ambulance arrived at the court so EMTs could check out Feliz, but she was not taken to the hospital.

Testimony is expected to resume Thursday afternoon.

THE BRONX — The girlfriend of “Junior” murder defendant Elvin Garcia testified Tuesday that he pointed himself out in the infamous video that showed five men fatally stabbing the boy last June.

“He just told me that was him and he pointed at the image,” Yudelvi Mena, 21, told the jury, looking frail and uncomfortable on the witness stand.

He shared this with her a day after Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz , a 15-year-old high school sophomore, was killed following a chase by at least 15 men in four cars in the Belmont section of the Bronx.

Prosecutors say suspect Elvin Garcia wore a dark covering over his face as he stabbed Junior last June.

Prosecutors said Garcia was wearing a dark covering over his face when he allegedly stabbed Junior multiple times.

Mena, who said she’s studying medicine, testified she initially heard from Garcia late Wednesday night, June 20, the night of the murder, going into the early hours of June 21. He wanted her to come to his Bronx home, she told the jury.

“He called me to go to the doctor,” Mena testified.

The girlfriend said she saw other members of the Los Sures set of the Trinitarios gang outside Garcia’s home when she arrived, and then she noticed one of his hands.

Elvin Garcia

“He had a hole, basically, through it,” Mena testified.

“He was just putting a tank top over it.”

Mena said she and Garcia rode in a cab, mostly in silence, to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan.

She testified he came up with a fake story for what happened to his hand, in case police had questions.

“That he got into a fight in the park because of me,” Mena said.

The phony fight was supposed to involve three men at a spot on 192nd Street in Manhattan.

Prosecutors said Garcia was actually accidentally stabbed by his co-defendant, Manuel Rivera, during the frenzied attack on Junior by five stabbers on the sidewalk outside the bodega at East 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx.

During cross examination, Mena said she and Garcia went to Philadelphia on June 22nd, two days after Junior was killed, and stayed with Garcia’s uncle.

They returned to New York City, she said, on June 24.

Mena said that’s when Garcia received a call from police, asking him to go to a Manhattan precinct.

She was put in a separate room, she said.

Later, Mena said she learned Garcia had been taken to a Bronx precinct on Webster Avenue, where he was ultimately arrested.

The trial testimony was delayed nearly three hours this morning when two defendants, Jose Muniz and Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, said they didn’t want to appear in court.

Judge Robert Neary announced they “voluntarily excluded themselves from court.”

“We are not going to comment to the jury about the absence of the two defendants,” Neary said.

All defense attorneys remained in court, including the two representing the absent defendants.

THE BRONX – The father of slain teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz abruptly left a Bronx courtroom Thursday, sickened by the sight of his son’s blood-soaked shirt.

“I saw my son’s bloody T-shirt and I never want to see it again,” Lisandro Guzman told reporters outside the trial in his son's murder, speaking in Spanish.

An NYPD officer, Tai Oykawa, testified that Junior’s white T-shirt and decorative sweatshirt were so bloody that the evidence leaked through a brown bag and had to be revouchered.

Oykawa, of the 48^th Precinct, said he was instructed to go to St. Barnabas Hospital in the early hours of June 21 to retrieve the slain teen’s clothing.

“He was just covered in a sheet up to his neck,” Oykawa testified, saying he saw Junior on a stretcher.

“He had already been ‘pronounced,’” meaning the teen had been declared dead.

Prosecutors already said the prime cause of Junior’s death was a lethal knife wound to the neck, coming from a 4 1/2 inch blade that sliced the teen’s jugular vein.

With Junior’s father listening and watching, the officer said he observed the teen’s clothing at the hospital and said he recognized it from surveillance footage he had seen minutes earlier at the Bronx bodega, where Junior was fatally stabbed by a pack of alleged gang members on the evening of June 20.

Junior’s sweatshirt was blue and white, with white stars on the sleeves.

Oykawa held up another article of clothing first.

“This is one, white T-shirt, blood-soaked,” the officer said, as he held the tattered item up for the jury to see.

It looked like the T-shirt had been cut open, during failed life-saving measures in the St. Barnabas emergency room.

Then the officer held up Junior’s sweatshirt, which was also torn and caked with dried blood.

“These are boxers,” the officer said, as he held up the teen’s navy-colored undergarment.

Then he displayed Junior’s navy and gray shorts, followed by one, bloody sock.

Junior’s father watched intently and stayed calm in a second-row spectator’s seat, as his son’s bloody clothing was revealed in court for the first time.

A short time later, though, the dad seemed to get upset during the cross-examination of another witness, concerning a knife found in an alleged getaway car.

He left the courtroom abruptly with a security detail and was escorted out of the courthouse to a waiting car, telling reporters he never wanted to see the bloody shirt again.

Junior’s mother, Leandra Feliz, has not been back to court since last Thursday, when she suffered what she called a “nervous breakdown” while watching surveillance footage of her son hiding under a sink, trying to elude the gang.

THE BRONX — It was the moment the Trinitarios safe house was suddenly anything but.

A Paterson, N.J. police sergeant and officer revealed in a Bronx courtroom Thursday what happened during their raid of the gang hideout where six suspects in the murder of “Junior” were hunkered down. They described how one suspect leapt out a window when cops arrived, and another hid behind a fridge — his exposed arm giving him away.

Jose Tavarez

Sergeant Rafael Hernandez of the Paterson Police Department testified that after getting a tip, he arrived with other cops at the home located at 260 E. 24 St. in Paterson at 1:46 p.m. that Sunday afternoon, June 24, four days after the shocking stabbing death of the boy outside a Bronx bodega.

Already, Hernandez could see people through the windows, he said.

“We approached the front door and then someone jumped out the first-floor window,” Hernandez testified. “I could see the tattoo on his neck. He landed on the sidewalk in front of the house and ran to the rear of the house.”

Hernandez later identified the suspect as Jose Tavarez, who had a tattoo with the inscription “1-5-7” etched on his neck. 1-5-7 means Trinitario in good standing.

Hernandez said he went up the rear stairs to the second floor of the house, where Tavarez “was changing his clothes.”

Tavarez was later charged with second-degree murder in New York for his alleged role in the chase of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz. At least four others in the Paterson house were identified as the Junior stabbing suspects.

Prosecutor Morgan Dolan asked Hernandez about the defendants in the courtroom.

“Were any of these five individuals present,” Dolan asked, referring to the New Jersey house.

“Yes,” Sergeant Hernandez replied.

Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago

During his testimony, Hernandez testified Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, Jose Muniz, Manuel Rivera and Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago were staying at the Paterson house when police arrived.

He couldn’t be sure about the fifth suspect at the defense table, Elvin Garcia.

Testimony earlier this week indicated Garcia had traveled to his Uncle’s house in Philadelphia for two days, shortly after the murder, and was asked to come to a New York City precinct, before he was formally arrested for murder in the first degree.

Hernandez said nine or 10 people were in the Paterson house, and six were taken into custody.

When another witness, Paterson Police Officer Selba Perez, testified, she said she found suspect Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago — shirtless — in the kitchen.

“He was hidden behind the refrigerator,” she said. “He was physically behind the refrigerator, where you could only see part of his arm hanging out.”

“I recognized him from the photos,” Velez told the jury.

The NYPD had emailed “wanted” flyers of the “Junior” suspects to the Paterson police earlier that day.

She said she and her police colleagues had moved through the house yelling, “Paterson police! Everyone put your hands up! Don’t move.”

Velez said she spoke to Santiago in English and Spanish, that he wasn’t resistant, and she eventually took him by the arm into police custody.

THE BRONX — Jailhouse phone calls involving four of the murder defendants in the savage slaying of “Junior” will implicate them in the death of the 15-year-old boy last June, the prosecutor told the judge Thursday.

“There are in these calls admissions by the defendants and places where they discarded weapons,” Prosecutor Morgan Dolan said.

Dolan made the revelations during a spirited court argument with defense attorneys and the defendants about their right to transcripts in the case.

Murder defendant Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, speaking in Spanish and using an interpreter, said he wanted “full access” to documents.

The five defendants were complaining that the Department of Correction wouldn’t let them see materials unless their attorneys were present.

The prosecutor said, “I have no real opposition to them having hard copies of conversations.”

Dolan said she didn’t want the defendants “having pedigree information” — things like addresses and dates of birth connected to certain speakers in the calls, or witnesses.

She argued that phone conversations in the days after the murder were part of the conspiracy.

Dolan also stressed she didn’t want the defendants “having access to the autopsy photos of the deceased,” referring to Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz.

She laid out a basic timetable for the last week of her case.

She plans to have a witness from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner on the stand early next week to talk about the autopsy performed on the slain teen.

Dolan said she hoped to have her prosecution case wrapped up by next Friday.

THE BRONX — He'd just chased the terrified "Junior" into the Bronx bodega the night of June 20, but when he finally got a good look at the 15-year-old boy, Michael "Sosa" Reyes had a change of heart.

In highly anticipated testimony on Friday, the admitted Trinitarios gang member who helped police track down several "Junior" murder suspects revealed he decided to leave the bodega "at the moment that I saw Junior’s face,”  he said in Spanish, using an interpreter.

Reyes testified Friday that Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz was hiding behind the counter.

“I saw him scared, and he reminded me of a person I had seen previously. When I saw his face, my attitude changed,” he testified.

Junior’s sister Genesis was in court listening to the testimony.

She had previously posted on social media that she and Junior had once met Reyes at a party.

Junior’s mother and father were also in court for the key testimony.

It was the mom’s first return to the courtroom in more than a week.

Last week, Leandra Feliz had started screaming and shaking in court during cross-examination of the other star witness, Kevin Alvarez.

Reyes, now 21, jump-started the murder investigation when he turned up at a Bronx police precinct in the early hours of June 23, 2018.

He had fled to the Dominican Republic, but flew back at the behest of a relative.

He helped detectives identify some of the murder suspects seen on surveillance footage by using Facebook.

In his initial testimony Friday, Reyes said he was a member of the “Bad Boys” set of the Trinitarios since he was 16.

He said his set was feuding with another division called “Sunset.”

Reyes said he met up with members of a third set, Los Sures, on the night of June 20.

He testified he saw one member of Los Sures there wearing a red hat, red polo shirt, and white sneakers.

This matches the description of one Junior stabber.

He also identified other alleged Los Sures members by their real names or nicknames: “Manuel,” “Welfinito,” “Diego,” “Colita,” “Flaco Patria,” and “Diente.”

He said “Diente” was a reference to “dentist” — “the way he has his teeth,” before identifying defendant Jose Muniz in court.

He said the orders given by two “set” leaders were “Go after Sunset. You already know what you have to do.”

When asked to explain, Reyes said, “If you have a gun, you shoot.  If you have a knife, you stab. If you have a machete, you use the machete.”

Reyes testified he used his white 2011 Acura to join the convoy looking for rivals.

The cars came upon Junior looking at his cellphone.

“He raises his hand. He answered the seven,” Reyes testified, not clarifying what “the seven” meant. “All I hear was ‘Oh, s**t, and then he started running.”

Reyes said a guy in his car tried to grab Junior when the teen was running near St. Barnabas Hospital, and the gray Acura with Kevin Alvarez at the wheel tried to block Junior.

“The kid was running too fast,” Reyes told the jury.

Reyes said he and a suspect wearing a green do rag lied to deli workers that Junior “had done something to my grandmother.”

When Reyes decided to leave the bodega, he was still outside when Kevin Alvarez and another suspect dragged Junior out to the sidewalk.

“He’s fighting for his life,” Reyes testified.

He said of “Diente": “I see Diente pulling at him and grabbing him and with his other hand, attacking him with the machete."

He said he saw “Manuel” getting close to him with a knife but didn’t see the knife go into Junior’s body.

He said the same about “Welfinito” and the suspect with the red hat.

Regarding a fifth stabber who had a covering  on his face, “I saw him running towards Junior and I saw him attacking him with a knife.”

THE BRONX —  In testimony that drew gasps from courtroom spectators,  cooperating witness Michael “Sosa” Reyes testified that one of Junior’s stabbers made a shocking comment in the getaway car Sosa was driving.

Speaking about “the one with the red hat,”  Reyes testified the man said about the young victim he had just stabbed: “He’s not gonna eat for a good, long time, because I hit him in the neck.”

The guy with the red hat did more than just hit 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz in the neck, according to prosecutors.

The blade from his 4 ½ inch knife allegedly sliced the teenager’s jugular vein.

Reyes identified the stabber in court, when the prosecutor showed him still images of murder defendant Jonaiki Martinez Estrella.

Earlier, Reyes had identified another defendant charged with murder in the first degree, Jose Muniz.

He knew Muniz by a nickname, “Diente,” a reference to “the way he has his teeth.”

Reyes testified he was driving a 2011 white Acura that’s been seen in many surveillance videos of the murder scene on East 183^rd Street and Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx.

He said after he decided to leave the bodega, because he recognized Junior as someone he’d met, he went outside and tried to warn other gang members about surveillance.

“Take the guys out of there,” Sosa said he yelled, “They have cameras.”

The Cruz & Chiky bodega had at least a dozen surveillance cameras in the store’s interior and outside, as well.

The warning was given too late.

Seconds after Reyes left the bodega, he said Kevin Alvarez and “the guy with the green do rag” were dragging the petrified Junior out to the sidewalk.

Reyes testified he saw the attack.

Even though he was a member of the “Bad Boys” set of the Trinitarios gang, he said some members of the Los Sures set that participated in the stabbing got into his back seat, after Junior had been stabbed by the mob on the bodega sidewalk.

He testified the guy with the do rag got in the seat behind him, “Diente” was in the middle, rear seat, and the guy “with the red t-shirt and the red hat” was in the other rear seat.

Reyes said Muniz, carrying a machete, had a warning for him.

“He told me not to speed up quickly, because if the police stop us, he will be responsible for the machete—and where could he hide it.”

“He told us if the police stop us, no one could talk, because we know what will happen to us, if we talk.”

Reyes later testified that a black Acura involved in the Junior chase belonged to suspect Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion, who was later arrested.

He also said that defendant Manuel Rivera apologized to the stabber who was wearing a dark cloth over his face, a man prosecutors identified as Elvin Garcia.

Manuel, 18 years old at the time, asked for forgiveness after Garcia allegedly said, “This c—ksucker cut my hand.”

Prosecutors have said Garcia got a wound in one hand when he was cut by a knife during the stabbing frenzy.

Reyes remembered that Los Sures leader, Diego Suero, advised Garcia to “go to a hospital far from the Bronx.”

Garcia allegedly ended up at Columbia-University Medical Center in Manhattan.

The prosecutor ended up asking Michael Reyes about the plea agreement she made with him, and it was revealed Reyes pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree last year.

But the charges “will be dismissed,” prosecutor Morgan Dolan pointed out, if Reyes testifies truthfully.

THE BRONX — The mother of slain teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was barred from returning to court Tuesday, after yelling out loud during the cross-examination of cooperating witness Michael “Sosa” Reyes.

Shortly after being removed, however, court was canceled for the day because of a sick juror.

After being removed from court, Leandra Feliz summoned PIX11 to a nearby gas station to explain that she was upset by Reyes’ testimony that one of the men allegedly involved in her son’s death was not a gang member at the time of the 2018 attack.

“Kevin Alvarez has a good offer, time served,” mother Leandra Feliz said of another witness, “and then I’m afraid now Michael ‘Sosa’ Reyes is trying to clean up another one of the Bad Boys.” The Bad Boys being a sect of the Trinitarios gang — several members of which are accused of killing Junior.

Junior’s mom said she got upset during Sosa’s testimony, under cross-examination, that the guy who was riding in his car — known as Philly — was not a Bad Boy Trinitarios member the night Junior was chased and then fatally stabbed.

Philly, whose real name is Danilo Payamps Pacheco, is facing charges of murder in the second degree at a later Bronx trial.

“He’s trying to clean him, too,” the mother said about Pacheco.

Reyes’ plea deal with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office requires him to testify truthfully in this and future trials.

If the prosecution is satisfied Reyes was truthful, he will have a guilty plea he made for manslaughter in the first degree dismissed.

Alvarez, the star witness who was initially charged with murder, has an agreement that allows for a future withdrawal of his first-degree manslaughter guilty plea, with a standing conviction of conspiracy in the fourth degree retained with “time served.”

Junior’s sister, Genesis Collado-Feliz, told PIX11 she understood why her mother got so upset about Sosa.

“He did say they were members of the gang on Friday,” Genesis said, referring to Sosa’s direct prosecution testimony, “and now he’s saying that Philly was not a member of the gang.”

In fact, Sosa said Tuesday under cross by defense attorney Kyle Watters that he had left the Bad Boys division of the Trinitarios in April 2018, when he was kicked out.

Yet he testified at length Friday that he was present the night of June 20 on Boston Road, when the leader of Los Sures and the boss of Bad Boys, gave the order to go after members of the rival Sunset crew.

Junior’s sister said of defense claims that Junior was in a photo with the Sunset crew, “It’s so stupid. He’s obviously not in any of these pictures. He was literally the best kid ever.”

And she’s upset that Michael Reyes, whom she once met at a party before her brother’s slaying, is getting what she believes is a sweet deal.

“I don’t like it at all. You’re getting no jail time. Why do you need to get your charges dismissed, as well? You’re not clean.”

Watch Mary Murphy’s interview with Leandra Feliz and her daughter after she was barred from the courtroom.

THE BRONX — There was finally some ‘Justice for Junior’ Friday after five men were convicted in the teen's brutal stabbing, but eight more defendants still facing trial will appear in court Monday.

A trial date will be set for alleged Trinitarios gang members Frederick Then, Ronald Urena, Jose Tavarez, Danel Fernandez, Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion, Diego Suero, Danilo Payamps Pacheco and Luis Caberasantos.

Two other men arrested in the case took plea deals and testified in the first trial.

The one year anniversary of the slaying of Lesandro "Junior" Guzman Feliz at a Bronx bodega is just days away.  A Mass and March will mark the occasion Thursday.

Here's what we know about the men set to face a judge Monday:

Frederick Then: 

• Testimony in the first trial identified Then as “Colita”—the alleged #2 leader of the Los Sures set in the Trinitarios gang.  Cooperating witness Kevin Alvarez said Then told him to go in the bodega last June 20 “and get the guy out.”  Bronx Assistant District Attorney Morgan Dolan previously said: “The defendant was known to have allegedly pursued Junior throughout the streets of the Bronx. There is video surveillance capturing his pursuit on foot that ultimately led to Junior going into a bodega, where he was pulled out and killed by members of the Trinitarios  gang."

Danel Fernandez:

• Fernandez was identified on the infamous surveillance footage as the suspect wearing a green do-rag. He allegedly took part in the foot pursuit of Junior.  Kevin Alvarez testified Fernandez helped him aggressively drag Junior across the bodega floor and out the front door to a waiting mob on the sidewalk.

Ronald Urena:

• Urena was allegedly among the group of men who spotted 15-year-old Guzman-Feliz on June 20th and chased the teen for blocks.  Investigators don't believe Urena was present when Guzman-Feliz was fatally attacked.

Jose Tavarez:

• Tavarez has a 157 tattoo on his neck, which denotes someone in good standing with the Trinitarios gang. He was allegedly seen on surveillance peering over the counter after Junior ran into the bodega, leaving to tell others the terrified teen was hiding inside.

Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion:

• Ramirez Concepcion allegedly owned a black Acura involved in the Junior chase.

Diego Suero:

• Suero is the accused leader of the Trinitarios' "Sures" set. He allegedly summoned other gang members to his apartment building on Boston Road before the Junior attack, telling those assembled they needed to retaliate against a rival faction known as “Sunset” for shooting another Trinitario in the eye. A cell phone photo was shown with more than a dozen alleged members of Sunset featured in the picture.

Danilo Payamps Pacheco:

• This suspect, known as “man bun,” was allegedly seen exiting the white 2011 Acura driven by cooperating witness Michael “Sosa” Reyes. Pacheco surrendered to police accompanied by a lawyer. Attorney Donald Vogelman said at the time Payamps Pacheco "was merely present at the crime other people committed."

Luis A. Cabrarasantos:

• Cabrarasantos was famously arrested on Interstate 84 in Southbury, Conn. weeks after the murder. His gray Honda was seized by state troopers in a dramatic car stop captured on camera. The suspect yelled his baby was still in the car. Cabrarasantos’ girlfriend was thrown to the grass. The suspect allegedly drove this Honda in a 4-vehicle pursuit of Guzman-Feliz.  Cabrarasantos also allegedly took part in the getaway of the suspects who used knives and a machete to kill 15-year-old Junior.