Two persons of interest in NYC murder captured in York

YORK, Pa. — Two persons of interest in a New York City murder case had been apprehended Friday in York through contributors of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and York City Police, government stated.

The people, known as Halley Tejada, 19, of New York and Kensly Alston, 16, of York, are sought after for wondering in the murder of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels, whose frame was once discovered in a duffel bag in the closet of her mom’s Manhattan condo final week.

The condo have been vacant for 3 or 4 months, according to reports out of New York. Authorities imagine Tejada and Alston had been squatting there with out permission.

The duo was once captured in York Friday morning, U.S. Marshals showed, however further main points referring to their seize weren’t instantly to be had, nor was once there any information on what fees, if any, had been filed in opposition to them in connection to Vitels’ demise.

They had been charged with receiving stolen belongings through Lower Paxton Police six days after their alleged involvement in a two-vehicle crash on Jonestown Road on March 13. 

The automobile they had been riding, a black Lexus SW with New York registration, belonged to Vitels, however the motive force, Alston, supplied the responding Lower Paxton Township Police officer with a false identify, and claimed she was once from New York however had a legitimate Pennsylvania motive force’s license, in step with a prison grievance filed Tuesday.

After police ran a couple of tests on “Veah Rose,” the identify supplied through Alston, and located no information, the officer threatened Alston with arrest for offering a false identify. She then allegedly gave the officer her right kind information, claiming she was once “nervous,” in step with the grievance.

Alston’s mom showed her information with police, and the officer didn’t run the automobile’s registration code quantity till tomorrow, which gave Alston and Tejada time to escape, in step with government in New York.

In the prison grievance charging Tejada with receiving stolen belongings, a Lower Paxton Township Police detective assigned to the case didn’t say why the responding officer didn’t run the automobile’s registration till an afternoon later.

According to government in New York, Vitels arrived on the condo on March 12 to organize it for a circle of relatives good friend. When she arrived, she discovered a person and a girl, believed to be Tejada and Alston, staying there with out permission. 

Authorities say a battle ensued, and Vitels sustained a deadly harm after being slammed in opposition to a wall. She died of blunt pressure trauma to the pinnacle, government declare.

The suspects then crammed her frame in a duffel bag, stole her automobile, and fled to Pennsylvania, government in New York imagine.

Her frame was once discovered final Thursday through her son, who visited the condo after no longer listening to from his mom for 2 days, stories out of New York state. As they had been about to depart the condo, the son opened the closet and came upon the duffel bag, with a foot protruding. 

Many of Vitels’ property had been tossed down the rubbish chute, reports claim.

It is unknown how Tejada and Alston had been ready to get right of entry to the condo, which has no entrance door. The development’s elevator opens without delay into the condo, however calls for a key to get right of entry to, stories out of New York stated.

After their near-miss with government in Lower Paxton Township, Tejada and Alston allegedly tried to buy a brand new automobile from a couple of dealerships in the realm. Detectives recovered surveillance video of the duo’s unsuccessful makes an attempt, government stated.

Investigators in New York even have recovered surveillance video of Vitels looking forward to exchange aspect parking regulations to park her Lexus on East thirty first Street previous to getting into the condo development, and of the suspects riding away in the automobile after she was once killed.