Jealous brother brutally kills Hispanic teenager in New York

A jury yesterday found Adons Betensis (24) guilty of brutally murdering a Hispanic teenager in The Bronx (NYC).

The victim was a teenager Winston Ortiz (17), Betances’ sister’s boyfriendwho was Suffered tortures, burns and stab wounds to death In the summer of 2020. According to the evidence of the prosecution, the accused He was jealous that the young man had a relationship with his sister 14 years old.

Betances, who lived about five blocks from Ortiz, apparently He got angry

Due to the age difference between the two and his sister being a minor. He was charged Ortiz was stabbed three times before being doused in gasoline and set on fire In a 5th floor hallway of a residential building in Highbridge, Near NY Yankees StadiumHowever, both of them did not live there.

Closing arguments in the trial took place Thursday in a packed courtroom, when prosecutors played body camera video of an NYPD officer who responded to the crime scene and asked the dying Ortiz who stabbed him and set him on fire.

Ortiz, in front of the camera, shouted the name of the only suspect in the case At least five times in the final moments of life

published Pix11.

Dramatic crime videos were shown during the trial. The court was among the people on the day of the closure Victim’s Dominican parentsas well as her siblings and several members of the family church, all “showed intense emotion. They cried, they hugged each other. “One woman was so overwhelmed she could barely stand and had to be helped.”

In 2021, ten months after teenager Ortiz’s brutal murder, his family attended his high school graduation. At the time his mother, Joan Tamerez, said her son was praying when a policewoman saw him die. “She heard him say, ‘Lord, forgive all my sins.’

previously, In 2019, Ortiz was diagnosed with a fatal brain aneurysm.

But after a year he met the family Good news from the doctor, who told him that the aneurysm had been successfully treated with radiation treatment. But in August 2020 tragedy would strike him again and this time it was fatal.