Man carjacked, beaten, shot to death for parking outside stranger’s LI home

A 29-year-old antheral was carjacked, viciously beaten and shot to death aft 1 of his killers took discourtesy to him parking successful “her” spot extracurricular her Long Island home, Suffolk County prosecutors said Tuesday arsenic they announced the indictment of 7 suspects.

Linver Alexander Ortiz Ponce, a implicit alien to the suspects, innocently parked his reddish Camaro extracurricular a location connected Fifth Ave. successful Bay Shore conscionable earlier midnight Sept. 16, 2022 — unwittingly mounting the concatenation of events into question that ended with him near dormant successful a religion parking lot.

“The alleged execution successful this lawsuit occurred with nary provocation and for nary bully reason,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said Tuesday. “No 1 deserves to endure a convulsive decease for simply parking a car. The alleged brutality showed present is unconscionable.”

Ortiz Ponce had the misfortune of happening to parkland extracurricular the location of Kayla Alvarenga.

Alvarenga, present 22, demanded Ortiz Ponce determination his car from the nationalist spot but helium refused, prosecutors said. Outraged, Alvarenga called her person Christopher Perdomo, present 27, to her home, asking him to “take care” of Ortiz Ponce.

Perdomo and 3 teens, who astatine the clip were betwixt 16 and 17, showed up successful a BMW they had carjacked successful different conception of Bay Shore hours earlier, according to authorities.

Perdomo and the teens pulled Ortiz Ponce from the Camaro and bushed him, prosecutors say.

Ortiz Ponce managed to escape, moving to a Shell state presumption a abbreviated region away, wherever helium was caught connected surveillance cameras hiding down respective vehicles.

Once the unfortunate ran off, Alvarenga told Perdomo and the remainder of her friends to instrumentality retired and find him.

Two much teens joined Alvarenga and Perdomo successful the search. Using Ortiz Ponce’s abandoned Camaro and the carjacked BMW, the radical divided up and searched up and down Fifth Ave. until they spotted their unfortunate hiding retired astatine the state station, according to tribunal papers.

Surveillance video recovered astatine the country shows Perdomo and his unit grabbing Ortiz Ponce astatine gunpoint and forcing him into the BMW. Ortiz Ponce is seen trying to combat disconnected Perdomo arsenic he’s thrown into the car, prosecutors said.

Once they abducted the victim, Alvarenga recommended they spell to a religion parking batch connected Holbrook St. due to the fact that she didn’t judge determination were immoderate surveillance cameras there, prosecutors said.

Perdomo repeatedly pistol-whipped Ortiz Ponce arsenic they drove astir six miles to the Jesus House of Prayer Church of God parking batch — wherever a surveillance camera was successful information installed, prosecutors said.

Once there, each fishy pounded connected Ortiz Ponce, who was truthful severely wounded helium could lone crawl distant from his captors, prosecutors accidental surveillance footage shows. That’s erstwhile Perdomo, astatine Alvarenga’s orders, changeable Ortiz Ponce dead, according to prosecutors.

Ortiz Ponce died successful the parking batch by the clip archetypal responders arrived.

Meanwhile, Perdomo and the teens abandoned the victim’s Camaro successful a thatch of woods successful Smithtown, prosecutors say. The stolen BMW was ditched successful Brentwood. A abbreviated clip later, Perdomo and the teens took an Uber backmost to Alvarenga’s home, wherever they divided up the wealth successful Ortiz Ponce’s wallet, prosecutors said.

The probe into Alvarenga and Perdomo began to physique successful February aft Suffolk County cops nabbed 1 of the teens allegedly progressive successful the killing, the archetypal apprehension successful the case. The 4 different teens are not successful custody with charges pending.

Perdomo was nabbed successful Georgia earlier this month. He had moved to Georgia successful May, prosecutors said.

Perdomo was extradited backmost to Long Island connected Oct. 16 and a justice ordered him held without bail connected murder, kidnapping and robbery charges. He’s facing beingness successful situation if convicted, prosecutors said.

“No 1 should leap to conclusions today,” Perdomo’s lawyer Robert Gottlieb told the Daily News Thursday.

“I guarantee you that the information astir what happened and wherefore and who bears work volition go precise wide arsenic this lawsuit proceeds.”

Alvarenga volition beryllium arraigned connected execution and akin charges connected Oct. 30, prosecutors said. This is the 2nd clip she’s been charged with murder.

She is already successful situation for her relation successful a botched 2021 robbery of a marijuana trader successful Huntington successful which a friend of the trader was fatally shot, officials said.

She and 3 others had planned to rip disconnected the marijuana trader connected Oct. 27, 2021. During the heist idiosyncratic fired a changeable done a closed store door, striking Louis Lombardo.

Alvarenga and co-defendant Jonray Perez were some equipped with guns and extracurricular the store doorway erstwhile the changeable was fired, though it wasn’t wide who really pulled the trigger.

Alvarenga was indicted connected execution and robbery charges successful January 2023, astir 4 months aft Ortiz Ponce was killed, and was yet convicted of robbery successful April. She was sentenced to 17 years successful situation and won’t beryllium up for parole until 2037.