Halley Tejada (19) and Kensly Alston (18), teenagers accused of killing Nadia Vitels after he broke into her New York apartment, used her stolen credit card to buy a diamond ring purchase to seal the bond. authorities said yesterday as they revealed details of the horrific case.
The young couple is accused Vitals beat to death when she arrived on vacation from Spain and found them living in her Midtown East apartment. They put his still alive body in a bag and kept it in the closet. before fled to Pennsylvania, where they were caught after hitting the victim in a stolen car a week later.
In the meantime They used the victim’s credit cards to spend large sums of money buying Apple AirPods, clothes, food, PlayStation 5 and the diamond ring, according to prosecutors. Alston had just come of age when he celebrated his 18th birthday, he explained. Daily News.
Tejada and Alston were charged Thursday in the death of Vitels, 52, inside the apartment he inherited from his late mother on East 31st Street near Third Ave. in Kips Bay.
“I’m innocent, I’m innocent,” Tejada told reporters yesterday as he was taken out of the District 17 police station.
The police believe that the spies were inside the flat that was empty for a few months until the 52-year-old woman showed up on March 10 to arrange for a family friend to live there. They surprised them there, they attacked her.
Four days later, Vitels’ son found his mother’s body with his leg sticking out of the duffel bag in a closet, while they were frantically searching the apartment for news of his mother.
Elizabeth Clerkin, assistant district attorney, said Tejada yelled at Vitels to kill her after she told the couple to leave the apartment. According to the prosecution, they forced her into the bedroom.
“Tejada stopped the head during it [Alston] “He broke the body,” Prosecutor Clerkin said. The teenager admitted that after dragging Vitels’ body to the kitchen, “she kept the bag open while the accused Tejada put the body in the bag and she was still breathing.”
An autopsy revealed that Vitels He died of a concussion in his head, the city medical examiner said on March 15, declaring his death a homicide. Inside the apartment find the agents signs of a struggle, including cracked and broken drywall that the victim’s head may have hitpolice sources said.
Tejada and Alston allegedly stole the victim’s Lexus pickup truck and drove him out of town from New York to New Jersey, police said. They hit after that the car in Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania. That crash gave investigators vital clues to catch the two suspects, US Marshals said last month.
Yesterday Alston and Tejada They were all charged with murder, robbery, robbery, criminal possession of stolen property, extortion and concealment of a human body.
All accusations are just accusations and those accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
2024-04-19 16:02:00
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