Bay Shore woman put hit on man parked outside her house, convicted of murder

The Bay Shore woman who orchestrated the kidnapping and killing of a man simply because he parked in front of her house faces life in prison after a jury on Friday convicted her of first-degree murder.

Kayla Alvarenga, 23, was found guilty following a jury trial before Acting Supreme Court Justice Anthony Senft Jr. in Suffolk County Court. She is scheduled back in court for her sentencing on April 28.

“Parking in front of someone’s home on a public street should never be a death sentence,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said. “What makes this case even more disturbing is the defendant’s manipulation and use of minors to carry out her violence.”

It was Sept. 17, 2022, when 29-year-old Linver Ortiz Ponce of Central Islip parked his red Chevrolet Camaro in front of Alvarenga’s Fifth Avenue home.

Prosecutors said Alvarenga confronted him and demanded he move the car. When the dispute ended, she made a series of phone calls that set a deadly chain of events in motion.

Alvarenga summoned co-defendant Christopher Perdomo, 28, of Glen Cove, and several teens to her home. The group arrived in a BMW they had carjacked from a Bay Shore woman hours earlier, Tierney said.

The group, including Alvarenga and five teenagers, dragged Ortiz Ponce from his car while he slept, beat him, stole his Camaro and left him to flee on foot to a nearby gas station, where he hid behind cars, prosecutors said.

That’s when Alvarenga ordered them to hunt Ortiz Ponce down, abduct him and kill him, Tierney said.

Surveillance video captured Ortiz Ponce being dragged at gunpoint into the BMW at the gas station. The group drove the BMW and the victim’s vehicle to a church parking lot, where Alvarenga directed Perdomo to shoot Ortiz Ponce as he tried to crawl away, prosecutors said.

Perdomo, who was captured in Georgia in May 2024, pleaded guilty in September 2025 to first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, second-degree robbery and weapons charges. The teenage co-defendants also pleaded guilty and testified against Alvarenga at trial.

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