Cuffed after 2nd slaying

Indicted in March murder, feds say he killed again Tues.

A Staten Island gangbanger was charged Wednesday in a March slaying — and is the alleged suspect in a killing that occurred the day before his arrest.

John “Tragedy” Pena, 29, who federal authorities say is the leader of a Bloods gang affiliate known as the Gorilla Stone Mafia, was arrested in the fatal shooting of Mark Bajandas, who was hit 18 times outside the Stapleton Houses on Hill St., officials said. Pena was indicted April 1.

According to federal authorities, Pena, after being on the run, returned to Staten Island, where on Tuesday he allegedly killed Francesco Gonzalez as he slept at his home on Stanley Ave. near Pine St. in Tompkinsville. Pena has not yet been indicted in the killing, authorities said.

“It is self-evident that the defendant, the boss of a violent street gang, poses a danger to the community as he has murdered two people in the course of the last three months,” prosecutors wrote in papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, asking that bail for Pena be denied.

“The cavalier and brutal manner in which the defendant recently committed those murders is demonstrative of his utter disregard for human life and evidence his ability to access and use, without hesitation, firearms to kill.”

The March killing came hours after a memorial for Avanti Brock, an ex-gangbanger who’d been killed a year earlier, the feds said.

In the Bajandas case, Pena was charged as a felon in possession of ammunition related to the slaying; he faces up to 10 years if convicted. Federal authorities say they have video surveillance showing Pena committing the crime and photos showing Pena with a gun in his waistband.

The court paperwork did not include evidence of why they suspect Pena is responsible for the Gonzalez killing. Pena has four prior state convictions on robbery and assault charges, authorities said.