The outside of the Manhattan Criminal Court heard voices in Spanish from the so-called “deliveristas”.
The food delivery men were gathered there to assess the sentence handed down on the thirteenth floor this Thursday: the convicted murderer of the Mexican food delivery man Francisco Villalva Vitinio was sentenced to 41 years in prison or the rest of his life behind bars.
“Thank God that justice was done and they gave the murderer 41 years,” said Margarita Villalba, sister of Francisco Villalva Vitinio.
Douglas Young insulted the judge from the defendants’ chair before receiving the maximum possible sentences on charges of manslaughter, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon, which he will serve consecutively in an upstate prison.
“It gave me courage, he even said a bad word when he was almost leaving,” said Lucas Villalba, Vitinio’s brother. “He’s not even going to pay a little bit of what he did to my brother. Not all people get justice.”
The consolation in justice is not enough to heal the pain of the family with indigenous roots in Xalpatlahuac, Guerrero.
“I’m a little better now, but my brother’s agreements come to me and it’s not easy at all,” added Margarita.
The Villalba brothers thanked the community for their support since the night of March 29, 2021, when Francisco took a break on the field of Poor Richard’s Playground in East Harlem before going home after a long day distributing food in the Upper East Side.
The attacker demanded his electric bicycle and fatally shot Francisco in the chest, leaving him to bleed on the pavement.
“I’m very thankful to the people who supported us,” added Lucas.
“He was a very good person, he worked, he supported my parents a lot, my dad is now very sad because my brother Francisco is no longer here,” said Margarita.
This same month Francisco would have turned 30 years old.
2023-04-27 22:42:00
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