A jury yesterday found Adones Betances (24) guilty of brutally killing a Hispanic teenager in The Bronx (NYC).
The victim was the teenager Winston Ortiz (17), Betances’s sister’s boyfriendwho was tortured to death, suffering burns and stab wounds in the summer of 2020. According to the prosecution’s evidence, the defendant He was jealous that the young man had a relationship with his sister of 14 years.
Betances, who lived about five blocks from Ortiz, apparently he got angry due to the age difference between the two and her sister being a minor. He was accused of stabbing Ortiz three times before dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire in the 5th floor hallway of a residential building in Highbridge, near the NY Yankees stadiumalthough neither of them lived there.
In a packed courtroom the trial’s closing arguments took place Thursday, when prosecutors played body camera video from an NYPD officer who responded to the crime scene and asked a dying Ortiz who He had stabbed him and set him on fire.
Ortiz, before the camera, shouted the name of the only suspect in the case at least five times in his last moments of lifehighlighted Pix11.
Dramatic incriminating videos were shown during the trial. Among the people in court on closing day were Dominican parents of the victim, as well as his siblings and many members of the family church, all “showing intense emotion. They cried, they hugged each other. “One woman was so overwhelmed that she could barely stand and had to be helped up.”
In 2021, ten months after the brutal murder of teenager Ortiz, his family attended what should have been his high school graduation. That time his mother, Joan Tamarez, stated that her son was praying when a police woman found him dying. “She heard him say, ‘Lord, forgive all my sins.'”
Previously, In 2019, Ortiz was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain aneurysm. But a year later the family received good news from a doctor, who told them that a radiation treatment had successfully treated the aneurysm. But in August 2020 tragedy would strike him again and this time it was fatal.
2024-02-10 20:00:00
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