A Long Island woman and her pals carjacked and kidnapped a stranger, then fatally shot him outside a church – all because he parked in front of her home, officials said.
Now 22-year-old Kayla Alvarenga and a crew of henchmen — including alleged triggerman Christopher Perdomo, 27, and five teenagers — have been charged with murder for the shocking 2022 killing in Bay Shore, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement this week.
“The alleged murder in this case occurred with no provocation and for no good reason,” Tierney said. “No one deserves to suffer a violent death for simply parking a car.”
The Sept. 16, 2022 ordeal unfolded when Alvarenga began arguing with victim Linver Ortiz Ponce, 29, of Central Islip, for parking his red Chevy Camaro outside her house on Fifth Avenue just before midnight, Tierney said.
Ortiz Ponce refused to move, so Alvarenga allegedly called for help from some friends — including Perdomo, two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old, officials said.
The four drove to Alvarenga’s house in a stolen BMW they’d carjacked a few hours earlier, pulled Ortiz Ponce out of his car and beat him, Tierney said.
Then they stole his car and took off, footage from a nearby gas station’s surveillance cameras showed.
The battered victim also ran away, and tried to hide himself between the cars parked at a Fifth Avenue gas station.
Alvarenga allegedly saw this, then called Perdomo and his crew to find Ortiz Ponce and kill him.
He allegedly brought along two more minors — a 16- and 17-year-old — and they all climbed into the stolen Camaro and stolen BMW to hunt Ortiz Ponce down.
When they found him, they stuffed him into the BMW at gunpoint, brought him to the nearby House of Prayer Church of God — which Alvarenga thought didn’t have cameras — and took turns beating him again, according to the DA and News 12’s reporting at the time.
That apparently wasn’t enough for the bloodthirsty ringleader, however — Alverenga allegedly ordered Perdomo to put a bullet in Ortiz Ponce, prosecutors claim.
Perdomo then shot the injured man several times as he tried to crawl away, Tierney said.
They fled the scene, abandoned the Camaro and the BMW and took an Uber back to Alvarenga’s home, he added.
Authorities arrested Perdomo in Georgia, where he moved in May, and arraigned him last Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, kidnapping, robbery, and conspiracy, Tierney said.
He faces life in prison without parole if convicted, and has been remanded ahead of his trial.
Alvarenga will be arraigned Oct. 30, Tierney said.
Each of the underage offenders has also been taken into custody, and charges are pending, he added.