Twin Brothers Headed to Prison For Brooklyn Murder

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to prison for orchestrating a murder from Rikers Island that also landed his twin brother in prison for the crime.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Friday announced that twin brothers, Armando Octaviano, 25, of Virginia and Jonny Octaviano, 25, of Sunset Park, were sentenced to prison in connection to the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in a Sunset Park apartment building lobby.

It all started when Jonny Octaviano, while incarcerated on Rikers Island for a separate crime, met an inmate who helped form an alliance between a Brooklyn gang the defendants were associated with and a Manhattan-based gang. In the days leading up to the shooting, the defendants and their associates met in person and agreed to carry out acts of violence together, including the targeted killing in this case, according to prosecutors.

On October 1, 2021, at approximately 4:50pm, while Jonny Octaviano was incarcerated, Armando Octaviano traveled to a residential building near 46th Street and Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park. Once inside the lobby, Armando Octaviano shot 21-year-old Jorge Sanango in the chest, killing him. The defendant fled the scene but was later identified through video evidence and other corroborating proof, according to Gonzalez.

"This murder grew out of a conspiracy formed while one of these defendants was incarcerated and resulted in a calculated act of gun violence that killed a young man and put entire communities at risk," Gonzalez said in a statement.

Armando Octaviano was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison after he was was convicted of second-degree murder, second-degree conspiracy and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Jonny Octaviano was sentenced to an indeterminate term of five to 15 years in prison after convicted of second-degree conspiracy.