2 Suspects, Including Teen, Arrested in Connection to New York City Murder of Nadia Vitel
Ahjané Forbes and Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, March 23, 2024
A manhunt is over after authorities arrested two reported squatters who were wanted in connection to the brutal murder of a woman in a New York City apartment.
On Friday, March 22, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Fugitive Task Force detained the two suspects, 19-year-old Halley Tejada and a person who was a juvenile at the time of the offense, on the premise of a stolen vehicle that had belonged to the Manhattan, New York murder victim, Nadia Vitel, 52, according to the press release by the organization. Vitel was a resident of Kips Bay, authorities say.
Halley Tejada and Kenny Alston
Nadia Vitel
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Officials say an autopsy revealed that Vitel died from blunt force trauma to the head and suffered multiple broken bones and bleeding on the brain.
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Jean Pompee, the building’s superintendent, told CBS2 she allowed one of Vitel’s family members to enter the apartment on March 14 after they couldn’t reach her. When they got inside, they found her body in a duffle bag, Pompee said.
“The male pointed to the closet, he said he believed that there’s a body in the bag,” Pompee told the outlet. “And all of her clothes were down, so you really couldn’t see the bag. You could see partially, a little bit.”
It was later revealed by CBS News that her son was the one who discovered his mom in the closet.
