An 11th suspect has been busted in connection with the vicious Bronx slaying of innocent teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, police said Friday.
Danilo Payamps-Pacheco, 21, turned himself in at the 48th Precinct in the Bronx on Friday morning, law enforcement sources said.
He was charged with murder, manslaughter, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
Police believe Payamps-Pacheco was one of the drivers of the thugs on the night of the June 20 knife-and-machete attack, sources said.
An emotionless Payamps-Pacheco didn’t say a word as he was walked out of the 48th Precinct station house to a waiting black Impala by two detectives to head to court — where a judge ordered him held without bail.
Defense lawyer Donald Vogelman disputed the charges, saying Payamps-Pacheco is not guilty of any crime.
“Mere presence at a crime scene is not enough to convict somebody,” Vogelman said. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
But Assistant DA Morgan Dolan said Payamps-Pacheco was among the thugs who chased Guzman-Feliz into a bodega, moments before he was beaten and stabbed to death.
“Video surveillance captured this defendant engaged in a foot pursuit,” Dolan said. “He gestured to co-defendants to where the victim was running.”
The defendant’s mom, Iris Payamps-Pacheco, walked out of court clutching her head in her hands in emotional agony.
She insisted her son couldn’t have been involved in this gruesome murder.
“He has no earring. He has no tattoos. He’s a good person,” the mom said.
“He just knew one person there. He’s innocent. It’s not fair.”
Surveillance images previously released by the NYPD show Payamps-Pacheco — with his hair in a bun — bolting out of a car at the slay scene, authorities say.
Cops say Payamps-Pachedo fled the scene in a white sedan.
Guzman-Feliz was fatally stabbed by a pack of suspected members of the Dominican gang the Trinitarios after being dragged out of the Cruz and Chiky bodega in Tremont.
Payamps-Pacheco is believed to be a part of the gang, sources said.
The teen victim, who was in the NYPD’s Explorer’s program, was killed in a case of mistaken identity, police have said.
The ninth and 10th suspects in the case — Diego Suero, 29, and 26-year-old Gabriel Ramirez Concepcion — were both nabbed this week.
Suero, according to police sources, ordered the ruthless murder that shocked the city.




