That guy who killed his classmate for bullying him for being gay was found guilty.
Abel Cedeno found guilty in fatal stabbing of Bronx HS classmate
A Bronx judge didn't buy a teen's claim that he stabbed a classmate to death over constant bullying because he is gay — and found him guilty on all counts Monday.
Abel Cedeno, 19, had requested a non-jury trial, meaning the judge decided his fate on first-degree charges of manslaughter and assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
When Cedeno's lawyer asked for bail for his client until sentencing in September, Justice Michael Gross, retorted, "The presumption of innocence no longer applies to Mr. Cedeno'' and ordered him remanded.
"This was a possible and foreseeable outcome,'' Gross added of Cedeno's actions.
The teen had plunged a switchblade into the chest of Matthew McCree, a fellow student at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, in September 2017 after the victim and a male pal allegedly tossed a ball of paper or pen at him and three started fighting.
Cedeno, who also seriously wounded the friend, has since come out as bisexual.
"I love you, Papi!" Cedeno's tearful mother yelled to her son as he was led away in handcuffs after the verdict.
The teen replied, "I love you, too.''
Cedeno will be sentenced Sept. 10 and faces up to 25 years behind bars on each of the top two counts alone.
"What does my heart tell me? That the judge did the right thing with that verdict,'' said McCree's mom, Louna Dennis, after the verdict.
"What was in my heart? That praise be to God for this outcome, for the prayers and everything that all my family and church has been doing for me,'' she added.
At trial, Cedeno said he didn't remember the actual moment he killed the 15-year-old McCree.
He said he just whipped out his knife n the hopes that "people would be afraid and not come near me'' but that McCree charged him and he stabbed him in self-defense.
As Judge Michael Gross read his verdict, McCree's family gave a hushed cheer from one side of the courtroom, while Cedeno's camp on the other side started weeping.
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