A parking dispute in Bay Shore, New York, turned fatal in the early morning hours of September 17, 2022. Twenty-nine-year-old Linver Ortiz-Ponce had parked his red Camaro in front of a Fifth Avenue house shortly before midnight. A resident of that home, 22-year-old Kayla Alvarenga, confronted Ortiz-Ponce and demanded he move the car; when he refused, she allegedly called 27-year-old Christopher Perdomo to take care of the situation.

Perdomo arrived with three teenagers in a BMW that had been carjacked earlier that day. They forcibly removed Ortiz-Ponce from his car, beat him and stole the Camaro. Ortiz-Ponce escaped to a nearby Shell station, but was later found by the group, abducted at gunpoint, and driven about six miles to the parking lot of the Jesus House of Prayer Church of God on Holbrook Street. During the drive Perdomo allegedly struck Ortiz-Ponce with a gun; at the church the assault continued until Ortiz-Ponce could only crawl away and was then shot, allegedly on Alvarenga’s orders.

An investigation resulted in arrests and an indictment charging Perdomo, Alvarenga and five adolescents with crimes including first-degree murder, kidnapping and carjacking. Perdomo was apprehended after moving to Georgia and faces first-degree murder charges that carry life without parole if convicted. Was anyone in the Bay Shore area that night able to help place the movements of these vehicles or the people involved?