This is the shocking moment Lesandro Guzman-Felix is dragged across the floor of a corner shop before being brutally killed in a machete attack
THIS is the harrowing moment teenager Lesandro Guzman-Feliz is dragged out of a Bronx corner shop just moments before being hacked to death with a machete.
The surveillance footage from Zesarina Grocery shows the 15-year-old being pulled along the floor by two men shortly before he was stabbed to death at around 11.40pm last Wednesday.
One of men in the film, obtained by the , is wearing a green du-rag and a black t-shirt with the American flag on the front, the other a dark baseball cap with white lettering and a plain white t-shirt.
The teenager - known as Junior - was then stabbed by a group of men, said to be from the Trinitarios gang, several times before they escaped.
Lesandro limped to St Barnabas Hospital but he could not be saved.
Police have now made five arrests related to the case, according to the .
Cops believe the killing was a case of mistaken identity after a "top leader" of the gang is said to have apologised to the teenager's family, saying, "It wasn't supposed to be him," according to Derek Grullon, the boyfriend of the victim's sister.
Bronx rapper Cardi B, 25, has donated $8,000 (just over £6,000) to the GoFundMe account for the teenager who was murdered.
Rihanna also paid tribute to the youth, writing on her Instagram page: "Can’t stop thinking about this poor baby boy, and how his family must feel right now! I’m sincerely praying for your healing and #justiceforjunior."
The account has raised more than $100,000 (£75,300) so far.
Shocking video showed attackers dragging the 15-year-old boy from a corner shop in the Bronx, New York
As blood poured from his neck, the teenager ran to a nearby hospital but collapsed just feet away and later died.
Now members of the deadly street gang behind the slaying have apologised to his family on social media claiming "it wasn't supposed to be him".
Derek Grullon, 19, the boyfriend of the victim’s sister, said he's received messages from men claiming to be part of Trinitarios, a notorious Dominican gang.
He told the he was sent a two-minute Snapchat video, in which one the gang leaders said: "I'm sorry. “I know it doesn’t mean a lot. It wasn’t supposed to be him."
Mr Grullon added that they also claimed the thugs responsible for the killing have been kicked out of the gang.
After hearing that Junior may have been killed in a case of mistaken identity, he said: "We cried. He was innocent."
Detectives say a homemade sex video posted on Facebook may have sparked the brutal attack.
They are probing whether his murderers mistook him for a similar-looking, curly-haired youth who faces the camera prominently in the tape.
Cops say a nude young woman in the video may be related to one of the attackers and they are investigating whether he rallied his friends to seek revenge.
Leandra Feliz, 48, said: “He was my angel. He was a sweet child. But they killed my son like he was junk.”
The teen was enrolled in the NYPD Explorers programme - a group for youth ages 14-20 who are interested in a career in law enforcement, police sources said.
His mum recalled: “Since he was five-years-old, he told me, ‘Mummy, I want to be a police'.
“He loved the police car. [He said], ‘I wanna drive the police car'."
CCTV from a nearby grocery store shows Junior being dragged from the bodge, just a block from his family's apartment, by his hood.
His five attackers then joined in holding him down and hacking him to death, one swinging into him with what appears to be a machete and another jabbing him repeatedly with a smaller knife.
After they fled, he is seen stumbling around calling for help as blood runs down his neck.
He tried to run to St. Barnabas Hospital - where his mum works in the intensive care unit as a housekeeper - but collapsed outside.
Mrs Feliz, a Dominican Republic native, said by the time she got there he was dead, having been stabbed in the neck and puncturing the main artery to the heat.
Through tears, she cried: “Tell me, what bad thing that a kid like that do? Five men with machetes?
“A kid with no weapon. Alone. Why kill him like that?
She added: "He was just waiting to graduate and study criminal justice. And be a police.
“I’m not going to see him get married, have kids. I’m going to have nothing from him.
“I have no reason to live my life. They kill him. They kill me, too. I’m ready to die. You can put me with my son."
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