Bay Shore woman convicted of murder for killing man who parked in front of her home
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced 23-year-old Kayla Alvarenga was found guilty of murder for orchestrating the killing of Linver Ortiz Ponce on Sept. 17, 2022.
A Bay Shore woman was convicted of murder for killing a man who parked in front of her home.
Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced 23-year-old Kayla Alvarenga was found guilty of murder for orchestrating the killing of Linver Ortiz Ponce on Sept. 17, 2022.
Evidence at the trial established that just before midnight, Ponce parked his red Chevrolet Camaro in front of Alvarenga's home on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore. The District Attorney's Office says that Alvarenga was angered by this and confronted Ponce, ordering him to move his car. After the dispute, she called co-defendants Christopher Perdomo, 28, and five other adolescents to go to her house and remove Ponce from the front of her home.
Perdomo and three adolescents drove to the house in a BMW that the district attorney said they had stolen in a carjacking, just hours earlier from a young woman in Bay Shore.
According to the District Attorney's Office, they dragged the victim from his vehicle while he slept in the car, beat him and then stole his vehicle. Alvarenga then instructed multiple other co-defendants to find and kill the victim after he had fled to a nearby gas station.
The District Attorney's Office says that video surveillance from the gas station captured Ponce being abducted at gunpoint while being dragged into the BMW. Alvarenga then instructed the co-defendants to follow her to a church parking lot where she ordered Perdomo to kill him after seven defendants allegedly beat the victim.
Alvarenga is due back in court for sentencing on April 28, 2026, and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
