Judge calls screaming mom of ‘Junior’ Guzman-Feliz ‘hysterical’
The mother of an innocent teen chased down and hacked to death with machetes by a pack of gangbangers was called “hysterical” by a Bronx judge Thursday after having to be restrained and escorted out of court by police when she began screaming at the top of her lungs.
Leandra Feliz, the mother of slain Bronx teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, began shaking and then started screaming when the court was shown graphic CCTV footage of her son’s murder last summer.
Bronx Supreme Court Judge Robert Neary groused about the disruption, telling the court to break for lunch “because someone became rather hysterical, demonstrably and screamed.”
Two friends tried to restrain Feliz before three police officers consoled her and removed her from the courtroom. Court officers told witnesses in the hallway outside not to film the episode, calling it a “medical emergency.”
Two EMTs were later seen entering the courthouse during the lunch break. A friend of Feliz told The Post, “She needs medical assistance right now. She needs to be at ease and calm down.”
The dramatic outburst is just the latest in the emotionally charged trial of five of the 14 gang members allegedly involved in the June 20, 2018, death of Junior, who was killed because his attackers believed he was a member of the rival Sunset crew.
He managed to run to nearby St. Barnabas Hospital but bled to death outside.
On Tuesday, Feliz was accosted by a pregnant supporter of her son’s accused killers who shouted obscenities at her on the way outside court.
She also stifled screams and walked out of court rather than endure footage of her son’s harrowing death earlier this month, calling the videos “mental abuse.”
“I cannot see no more of those videos. It’s too much,” Feliz told reporters on day three of the murder trial.
