A heartless Lengthy Island gang chief was sentenced to life with out parole Tuesday for ordering the kidnapping and homicide of an motorist who fell asleep in entrance of her home.
Kayla Alvarenga, 23, was discovered responsible of ordering her Bay Shore-based gang, “Household Over Every little thing, All people Killed,” to pull sleeping 29-year-old Linver Ortiz Ponce from his automobile in March 2022 — then directing her goons to shoot him as he tried to crawl away in a church parking zone.
Ponce was an entire stranger who had pulled over to relaxation on a residential South Shore block after an evening out, in accordance with Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney.
“A person is useless as a result of he parked in entrance of the fallacious home,” Tierney stated Tuesday.
“[Alvarenga] orchestrated his kidnapping and homicide, directed co-defendants to hunt him down, and used minors to get it completed — the jury noticed precisely what she did, and now she is going to spend the remainder of her life in jail for it,” the DA added.
Choose Anthony Senft advised Alvarenga she had displayed “zero respect for human life” and confirmed no regret, Newsday reported. The gang chief declined to deal with the courtroom or provide a lot as an apology to the sufferer’s household, in accordance with the outlet.
The mindless killing befell after Alvarenga noticed Ponce’s crimson Chevrolet Camaro parked in entrance of her Bay Shore dwelling on Fifth Avenue.
She got here outdoors demanding he transfer the automobile from in entrance of her home, however Ponce refused and a heated argument ensued simply earlier than midnight, in accordance with the DA
Alvarenga then referred to as Christopher Perdomo, 28 — who was apprehended in Georgia in Might 2024 for his function within the homicide — and three youngsters who had been instructed to go to her home and forcibly take away Ponce from the entrance of her dwelling, officers detailed.
The gang then pulled up shortly after in a luxurious BMW that that they had simply carjacked from a younger girl in Bay Shore simply mere hours earlier, the DA stated.
The 4 gangsters, instructed by Alvarenga, then dragged Ponce from his automobile, mercilessly beat him and stole his Camaro. Ponce escaped and ran to a close-by gasoline station, the DA detailed.
However Alvarenga then ordered the gang to seek out, abduct and homicide Ponce, officers stated.
Surveillance footage from the gasoline station captured Alvarenga driving Ponce’s Camaro, ready at midnight as her crew closed in and dragged him into the stolen automobile at gunpoint, authorities stated.
Prosecutors stated Perdomo pistol-whipped Ponce repeatedly in the course of the trip to a close-by church parking zone, the place Alvarenga gave the ultimate order.
“Kill him,” she commanded Perdomo, who did precisely as advised and shot Ponce 4 instances as he tried to crawl away, in accordance with prosecutors.
The gang then left Ponce’s physique and fled to dump the stolen vehicles, officers stated. They left the Camaro in a wooded space in Smithtown and deserted the BMW in Brentwood earlier than taking a rideshare again to Alvarenga’s home — the place they divvied up the money from Ponce’s pockets, in accordance with the DA.
Perdomo is due again in courtroom on Might 12 for sentencing, the place he’s anticipated to be hit with 20 years in jail as a part of a plea settlement.
5 of the adolescent co-defendants have additionally pleaded responsible, the DA stated.
