Thug convicted in vicious 2018 gang slaying of ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz gets new sentence after NY court tossed first-degree murder rap

A Bronx hood convicted in the vicious gang slaying of 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was hit with a new prison sentence after a state appeals court tossed his first-degree murder rap. Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella, 27, was among two dozen members of the “Trinitarios” street gang busted in the shocking June 20, 2018, caught-on-video attack on the teenager at the Zesarina Grocery store in Belmont, in what authorities said was a case of mistaken identity.

5 Leandra Feliz demanded justice after her son, 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, was killed by a gang. for New York Post Martinez-Estrella was found guilty of first- and second-degree murder in the case in 2019, and was sentenced to a prison term of life without parole for allegedly delivering the death blow to the teen. But the convicted killer appealed and, in 2023, a New York State Appellate Division panel threw out the top charge, which carries the life without parole sentence. “The evidence established that defendant committed an extremely heinous second-degree murder,” the panel’s decision said. “However, we vacate his conviction of first-degree murder under [the law] because the evidence did not establish the very specific element of that crime.”