A 29-year-old man was robbed, beaten badly, and shot to death because he was parking in “her” spot outside of her Long Island home, Suffolk County prosecutors said Tuesday as they reported the arrests of seven suspects.
Linver Alexander Ortiz Ponce, who had never met the suspects, parked his red Camaro outside of a house on Fifth Ave. in Bay Shore just before midnight on September 16, 2022. He did this without meaning to, and it set off a chain of events that led to his death in a church parking lot.
This case involves an alleged murder that happened for no good reason and with no warning. This was said by Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney on Tuesday. “No one should be killed violently just for parking their car.” It is unacceptable that this claimed brutality was shown.
It was bad luck for Ortiz Ponce that he happened to park outside of Kayla Alvarenga’s house.
Prosecutors say that Ortiz Ponce refused to move his car from the public area when Alvarenga, who is now 22 years old, asked him to. Authorities say that Alvarenga was so angry that she called her friend Christopher Perdomo, who is now 27 years old and asked him to “take care” of Ortiz Ponce.
Authorities say that Perdomo and three teens, who were between the ages of 16 and 17, showed up in a BMW that they had stolen in another part of Bay Shore hours before.
Police say that Perdomo and the teens beat Ortiz Ponce after taking him out of the Camaro.
The suspect, Ortiz Ponce, was able to get away by running to a nearby Shell gas station. There, he was caught on video hiding behind a few cars.
That person then ran away, and Alvarenga told Perdomo and her friends to spread out and find him.
Alvarenga and Perdomo were joined by two more teens in the search. Court papers say that the group looked up and down Fifth Avenue using Ortiz Ponce’s abandoned Camaro and the stolen BMW. They finally found their victim hiding at the gas station.
At the scene of the crime, surveillance video showed Perdomo and his crew holding Ortiz Ponce by the throat with guns and pushing him into the BMW. Police say the victim tried to fight off Perdomo as he was being thrown into the car.
Prosecutors say that after they took the victim, Alvarenga told them to go to a church parking lot on Holbrook St. because she didn’t think there were any security cameras there.
As they drove about 6 miles to the Jesus House of Prayer Church of God parking lot, where authorities say a surveillance camera was set up, Perdomo hit Ortiz Ponce with the gun several times.
When they got there, they all beat Ortiz Ponce so badly that he could only crawl away from his captors, according to security footage released by the government. That’s when Perdomo killed Ortiz Ponce on Alvarenga’s orders, according to the courts.
By the time the police arrived, Ortiz Ponce had already died in the parking lot.
Backyard neighbor Laverne Thomas faces the church parking lot. At the time, she told News12 Long Island that she thought the gunshots were fireworks and had never seen anything like Ortiz Ponce’s murder in the 54 years she had lived there.
“That church has only been good to me.” For something to happen in the parking lot of a church, it’s just strange. “It’s like there are no more morals or limits,” Thomas said. “Anyone can kill someone today for no reason.” It’s not even funny.
Prosecutors say that Perdomo and the teens left the victim’s Camaro in a patch of woods in Smithtown after the killing. The stolen BMW was left in Brentwood. Police say that Perdomo, the teens, and Alvarenga took an Uber back to his house and split the money in Ortiz Ponce’s wallet there.
In February, Suffolk County police arrested one of the teens they thought was involved in the killing. This was the first move in the investigation into Alvarenga and Perdomo. The four other teens are being held without bail while charges are being prepared.
Police say they caught Perdomo in Georgia this month, even though he had only moved there in May.
Last Wednesday, he was sent back to Long Island, where he was charged with murder, kidnapping, and robbery. A judge ruled that he be held without bail. If found guilty, prosecutors say he will spend the rest of his life in jail.
The lawyer for Perdomo, Robert Gottlieb, told the Daily News on Tuesday, “No one should jump to conclusions today.” “I promise that as this case goes on, it will become very clear what happened, why it happened, and who is responsible.”
Attorneys for the state say Alvarenga will be charged with murder on Oct. 30. She has been charged with murder twice now.
She is already in jail for her part in a failed heist on a marijuana dealer in Huntington Station, L.I., in 2021, in which the dealer’s friend was shot and killed.
She and three other people were going to rip off the pot dealer on October 27, 2021. Jahshawn Strickland, 17, and someone else who was not named went into the dealer’s garage and pretended to try to buy something.
Two 17-year-olds, Alvarenga and Jonray Perez, were in the garage with guns and made threats of violence if the door wasn’t opened.
A gunshot went through the garage door and killed Louis Lombardo, who was 28 years old. It wasn’t clear who fired the shot.
In January 2023, about four months after Ortiz Ponce was killed, Alvarenga was charged with murder and robbery in the marijuana robbery death. In April, he was found guilty of robbery. She got 17 years in jail, and she won’t be able to get out until 2037.
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