A woman from Long Island, New York, will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing a man. His crime? Parking his car in front of her house. Kayla Alvarenga ordered a man and multiple teenagers to physically remove the man from his car and then steal the vehicle. Instead of just leaving it at that, she then ordered them to find the man, who had understandably run away when he was attacked. Unfortunately, Alvarenga and her goons found him and kidnapped him. Alvarenga then reportedly had the people she was with kill the man. It is unknown why she was so angry about the car’s presence.
She will never see the outside world again.
On April 28, 2026, Alvarenga, 23, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Law & Crime reported. In March 2026, she was convicted of murder in the first degree, kidnapping, robbery, and conspiracy.
“Parking in front of someone’s home on a public street should never be a death sentence,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in court after her conviction, GLI reported. “What makes this case even more disturbing is the defendant’s manipulation and use of minors to carry out her violence.”
Just before midnight on September 17, 2022, 29-year-old Linver Ortiz Ponce parked in front of Alvarenga’s home in Bay Shore, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced in a news release.
Angered by the red Chevrolet Camaro appearing there, Alvarenga went outside and demanded that Ponce move the car. She then called Christopher Perdomo and three minors between the ages of 16 and 17. Her instructions were clear: Go to the house and remove Ponce.
Her lackeys, who have also faced criminal charges, drove to her home in a BMW they’d stolen hours earlier in a carjacking. They proceeded to drag Ponce from where he was sleeping in his car and beat him up before stealing the car.
He ran to a nearby gas station where he tried to hide behind other cars.
“Alvarenga then instructed her co-defendants to find, abduct, and kill the victim,” the news release shared.
Alvarenga took two of the teens to search for Ponce in his car while Perdomo and three other teens joined the search in the stolen BMW. When she spotted him at the gas station, she alerted the four in the BMW.
“Video surveillance from the gas station captured the victim being abducted at gunpoint while being dragged into the BMW,” the release reads. Alvarenga ordered the people in the other car to meet her at a church parking lot. Perdomo beat Ponce with a gun as they drove to the church.
Alvarenga made one definite decision: Ponce had to die.
When they got to the church parking lot, the seven thugs beat Ponce until Alvarenga ordered Perdomo to kill him.
“Perdomo then shot the victim multiple times as he attempted to crawl away, killing him,” the district attorney’s office’s release read. Everyone then left, abandoning the two stolen cars in different towns. “The defendants then allegedly took a rideshare to Alvarenga’s house, where proceeds from the victim’s wallet were distributed amongst them.”
Perdomo was apprehended in Georgia in May 2024. On September 12, 2025, he pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. He will be sentenced on May 12, 2026.
“A man is dead because he parked in front of the wrong house. This defendant orchestrated his kidnapping and murder, directed co-defendants to hunt him down, and used minors to get it done,” the district attorney shared in the news release. “The jury saw exactly what she did, and now she will spend the rest of her life in prison for it.”
