A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a ruthless, unrepentant MS-13 street gang member to 38 years in prison for murdering the wrong man in a 2006 Christmas Eve revenge killing in Flushing, Queens.
Hector Portillo, 20, pleaded guilty last September to standing over the body of Pashad Gray and repeatedly firing bullet after bullet into the body of the man he mistakenly thought was a Bloods gang member who had previously stabbed him.
The diminutive street hood showed no remorse as he shifted restlessly and looked around the courtroom when Grays sister asked for an apology.
“Can me and my family get an apology?” Rynadia Whittingtondo asked Judge Sterling Johnson.
“I gave him the opportunity, but he declined to speak,” said Johnson when issuing his sentence. “It would be good for his soul to do so. Whether it’s here in open court or locked behind bars, he has 38 years to [apologize].”
Portillo, who has been part of the Central American-based gang since he was 11 years old, had also pleaded guilty to repeatedly stabbing another man that he had thought was badmouthing MS-13.