Cops ask for help identifying the five gang members who stabbed a 15 year old boy to death in Bronx

New York police have released images of alleged gang members wanted for the brutal killing of a 15-year-old boy, which was captured on video showing the victim being dragged out of a convenience store and viciously slashed in the neck. 

Police are hoping the public can help with information leading to the arrest of the suspects. 

The frenzied attack took place outside Zesarina Grocery located on East 183rd Street in the Belmont section of The Bronx at around 11.40pm on Wednesday.

The NYPD says Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, had gotten into a dispute with several young men. 

Harrowing video: Surveillance video shows a group of suspects dragging Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, 15, out of a bodega in The Bronx on Wednesday night 

Frenzied attack: The men pulled out knives and machetes and proceeded to stab and slash the teenager 

Frenzied attack: The men pulled out knives and machetes and proceeded to stab and slash the teenager 

The men are seen in the footage repeatedly knifing Guzman-Feliz on the sidewalk in front of the grocery store

The men are seen in the footage repeatedly knifing Guzman-Feliz on the sidewalk in front of the grocery store

Brutal: The men are seen in the footage repeatedly knifing Guzman-Feliz on the sidewalk in front of the grocery store 

Cry for help: After the attackers fled, the mortally wounded by got up, with blood pouring from a wound on his neck 

Cry for help: After the attackers fled, the mortally wounded by got up, with blood pouring from a wound on his neck 

Guzman-Feliz tried to ran to a hospital, but collapsed a block away

A woman tried to stop the bleeding from his neck, but he died on the sidewalk

Guzman-Feliz tried to ran to a hospital, but collapsed a block away. A woman tried to stop the bleeding from his neck, but he died on the sidewalk 

CCTV video posted by Facebook user Riichy Rich on Friday shows the pack of men forcibly dragging Guzman-Feliz by the hood of his jacket out of the bodega and frantically stabbing and slashing him with a machete before fleeing on foot.

The 15-year-old attended high school and dreamed of becoming a police detective one day

The 15-year-old attended high school and dreamed of becoming a police detective one day

After a few seconds, Guzman-Feliz is seen standing on the street corner with blood pouring from a wound in his neck.

He then runs across the street, heading towards the nearby St Barnabas Hospital.

According to police, the mortally wounded boy never reached the hospital and collapsed a block away.

Another extremely graphic video posted on social media by a different user shows Guzman-Feliz drenched in blood from head to toe, sitting on the sidewalk with his back against the wall.

A woman tries to apply pressure to his neck before police officers and paramedics surround him. Guzman-Feliz succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Officers said with his dying breath, the 15-year-old asked for some water, according to ABC 7 New York.

Investigators said he had told his mother he was going to the bodega a block away from his house to either repay a debt, or lend $5 to a friend. He never made it home that night.

According to police, Guzman-Feliz knew his attackers and they believe the slaying may be gang-related.

The victim’s sister, Genesis Collado-Feliz, 17, said her younger brother loved playing video games and would come to her for advice about girls. She said Lesandro had recently become friends with a group of older boys, but she insisted he was not in a gang.

‘He tried to run into the store because he thought he’d be safe. They dragged him from the store like a dog,’ Collado-Feliz told the New York Post. ‘They were grown men and he was only 15.’

Guzman-Feliz was a student at the Dr Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School. News 12 The Bronx reported that he had aspired to become a police detective.

Police are searching for at least six suspects in connection to the vicious killing. They were last seen driving away in a white sedan and a dark sedan.

The suspects were last seen driving away in a white sedan and a dark sedan (pictured)

 



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