Two teen squatters accused of murdering a mom and stuffing her body in a duffel bag at her apartment went on to use her credit card to buy an engagement ring, a court has heard.
Halley Tejada, 19, and Kensly Alston, 18, shuffled into Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday charged with killing Nadia Vitels, a 52-year-old woman who was found in a duffel bag in her New York City apartment on March 14.
The pair pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, burglary, robbery, criminal possession, grand larceny and concealment of a human corpse and were remanded in custody.
The medical examiner ruled Vitels’ death a homicide after an autopsy ruled she died from multiple facial fractures, a brain bleed, two broken ribs and blunt-force trauma to the head.
Prosecutors allege that Tejada and Alston broke into Vitels’ apartment on March 10 and stayed there for two days before she returned home with her dog and told them to leave.
Tejada is accused of stomping on her head before hitting her with a frying pan while Alston kicked her body and the pair then wrapped her neck and body with a cord.
Teen squatters bought engagement ring, AirPods and a Playstation with credit card that belonged to mother whose body they stuffed in a duffel bag after beating her to death with a frying pan, cops say
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