Three charged in subway killing of teen
BY CHRISTINA SANTUCCI

Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:01 AM CDT


Three men have been charged with gang assault and murder in the gunning down and stabbing of a Mexican teen at an Astoria train station over Labor Day weekend.

Jose Alvarez and Nicholas Reyes, both 20 and of the Bronx, and Emanuel Ramirez-Hernandez, 23 and homeless, now face 25 years to life behind bars for killing 19-year-old Jose Sierra. The men were held without bail and are due back in court on Friday, September 21.

“The defendants are accused of acting with wolf pack mentality in attacking and killing a hardworking teenage immigrant as he stood on the crowded elevated platform of a Queens subway station in the dark pre-dawn hours of a holiday ironically intended to honor the workers of our country,â€