15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was dragged by five men out of a Bronx store and stabbed in the neck. The teen, known as Junior, ran to a nearby hospital before succumbing to his injuries. According to the New York Post, the 15-year-old was killed Wednesday night on Bathgate Avenue in Belmont. Guzman-Felis was allegedly involved in verbal dispute with a group of five men before video footage captured the men physically picking up the teen and dragging him out of the store. Guzman-Feliz was brutally attacked and stabbed on both sides of his neck with a machete. According to ABC 7, Guzman-Feliz ran to St. Barnabas Hospital, located one block away from the crime scene, before collapsing on the sidewalk. The victim's 17-year-old sister Genesis Collado-Felix said, "He tried to run into the store because he thought he'd be safe. They dragged him from the store like a dog... They were grown men and he was only 15," in a statement to the New York Post. Video footage of the incident went viral on social media with the hashtag #JusticeForJunior and garnered the attention of celebs like Cardi B.<doc-sep>“He ran to the hospital and then collapsed in front of the emergency room. The last words (he said) to his friends that saw him, he was asking for water because he was choking on his own blood,” Jimenez said.<doc-sep>BRONX, New York -- Police are searching for the group of men who fatally stabbed a 15-year-old boy in New York.Authorities were called for reports of an assault in progress around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday at a bodega at East 183rd and Bathgate Avenue in the Tremont section.When they arrived, witnesses told them there had been a fight in front of the store that resulted in Lesandro Guzman-Feliz getting slashed in the neck with a machete.Guzman-Feliz then ran to St. Barnabas Hospital, located just a block away, but authorities say he collapsed on the sidewalk. His dying words, investigators said, were that he needed some water.He reportedly lived one block from the bodega and was known in the neighborhood as Junior. Investigators say he told his mother he was heading downstairs to repay $5 to a friend, but instead he ended up involved in some type of dispute.Relatives hugged and cried at the scene Thursday, desperate to understand how and why such a thing could happen. They described him as a good kid and a typical teenager. "All I can say was that he was a good kid," sister Genesis Collado-Feliz said. "He just played Playstation. He played Fortnite. He played 2K, like every 15-year-old. He asked me for advice with girls. "She said her brother had recently started to hang out with a group of older kids, but she insisted he was not involved with any gang activity.At least six people were involved in the attack, and surveillance video reportedly shows them fleeing in a white car. So far, there are no arrests.<doc-sep>The 15-year-old who was dragged out of a Bronx bodega and butchered on the street like an animal may have been the victim of a tragic case of mistaken identity — involving a raunchy sex video, according to police sources. Detectives are probing whether Lesandro Guzman-Feliz’s attackers mistook him for the person in a sex video posted online featuring a relative of one of his attackers, two high-ranking police sources told The Post. Guzman-Feliz was dragged by the hood of his shirt out of the Cruz and Chiky grocery on East 183rd Street and Bathgate Avenue in Belmont on Wednesday night. His five attackers then hacked at the shrieking teen with a large blade as another one punched him over and over, before the group sped off in two cars. Guzman-Feliz, who lived in the area with his family, ran toward nearby St. Barnabus Hospital before he died of his injuries just feet away, police said. His mom told The Post on Saturday that her son was a “sweet kid” who aspired to one day become a cop. “His dream in the future was to be a detective,” Leandra Feliz, 48, told The Post. “Since he was 5 years old, he told me, ‘Mommy, I want to be a police. '” He was enrolled in the NYPD Explorers program, a program for youth ages 14 to 20 who are interested in a career in law enforcement, police sources said. “He loved the police car,” she added, using her hands as a steering wheel. “[He said], ‘I wanna drive the police car.’” Feliz said her son was never in a gang. “Tell me, what bad thing that a kid like that do?” she said. “Five men with machetes. A kid, with no weapon. Alone. Why kill him like that?” Guzman-Feliz said she did not know if her son had been targeted. “Not that I know of because my son never had any problems,” she said. “In his 15 years, he never had not even one fight with nobody, not even in the school. And all his friends love him.” “I have no reason to live my life,” she added through tears. “They kill him. They kill me, too. I’m ready to die. You can put me with my son.” Detectives are “still sorting out ton of information/misinformation,” another police source said.<doc-sep>
A 15-year-old boy died earlier this week after he was dragged out of a Bronx bodega by a group of thugs and repeatedly stabbed and hacked at with a machete. Surveillance footage of the incident, released by the New York Post on Friday, shows Lesandro Guzman-Feliz being dragged out of a grocery store in Belmont by a group of four men at around 11.40 p.m on Wednesday evening. Outside, one of the attackers can be seen slashing at Guzman-Feliz with a large blade while another repeatedly stabs him, before the group fled in two cars, leaving the teenager fatally wounded. Guzman-Feliz managed to stand up and can be seen screaming before stumbling across the road. He reportedly ran to the nearby Saint Barnabus Hospital where he later died. In the Bronx on 6/20, 15-yr-old Junior Guzman-Feliz was fatally stabbed by the men in the photo (on right). He was never going to give up on his dream of being an NYPD detective & WE’LL NEVER GIVE UP ON HIM. Help us get #JusticeForJunior You can anonymously call 800-577-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/0gVAMfmC7f — Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) June 23, 2018 On Friday, authorities released a video of the group of attackers walking in and out of the store. Police say they are still looking for the men in the footage, reported CBS Local. Another video, which was posted on Facebook, showed Guzman-Feliz sitting outside Saint Barnabus Hospital while people around him attempted to treat his wounds, reported Inquisitr. Guzman-Feliz's mother said the teenager went to the bodega to lend a friend money, reported News 12 Brooklyn. Authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the attackers in the surveillance footage. Genesis Collado-Feliz, 17, told the New York Post that Guzman-Feliz was "a good student". "He tried to run into the store because he thought he'd be safe. They dragged him from the store like a dog," she said. "He is not a criminal." Police have confirmed that Guzman-Feliz did not have any criminal convictions.