Bronx gangsters plead guilty to 2013 shooting death of high school honor student Alphonza Bryant weeks before his graduation

Alphonza Bryant, shown here in a photo held by mom Jenaii Van Doten, was shot and killed in the Bronx in 2013.

(Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily News)

Two gangsters have pleaded guilty to manslaughter for their role in the fatal shooting of an innocent Bronx honor student weeks before his high school graduation, authorities said Tuesday.


Raul Pacheco, 25, and Eric Landron, 26, will spend 18 and 10 years in prison, respectively, for the April 2013 killing of Alphonza Bryant — who got caught in the middle of a gang beef he had no part in, the Bronx District Attorney’s office said.


Bryant, 17, was standing with friends on Fox St. in Morrisania when Pacheco and Landron, both members of the Latin Kings, sent a hail of bullets into the crowd as part of an ongoing feud with rival gangsters, prosecutors said.


Bryant, who was set to graduate from Urban Assembly Bronx Studio for Writers and Artists, was not the intended target.


Slain Bronx teen Alphonza Bryant's father killed in same nabe


Just days before the shooting, he was fitted for the tuxedo he planned to wear to the prom.
A bullet struck Bryant in the chest.


Bryant's mother, Jenaii Van Doten, spoke out after her son's killing — blaming gangs and guns for the tragedy.