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KIPS BAY, Manhattan (WABC) -- Two suspected squatters wanted for
questioning in the murder of a woman who walked in on them
living inside her recently deceased mother's Kips Bay apartment
are now in custody.

The suspects were caught Friday in York, Pennsylvania, by
members of the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force just
before 11 a.m.

Halley Tejada, 19, and Kensly Alston, 18, were wanted in
connection to the brutal death of Nadia Vitels.

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Tejada is being held on a local charge of receiving stolen
property, for possession of the victim's stolen Lexus. Both are
being held pending extradition for her murder.

Building superintendent Jean Pompee says a weight has been
lifted from his shoulders.

"Knowing that there's justice for her and her family? That's a
relief," Pompee said.

Vitels arrived in the country from Spain last week to prepare
the East 31st Street apartment for a family friend. It was owned
by her mother, and had been vacant for the three to four months
since her death.

Instead, she discovered the man and a woman living inside.

A struggle broke out and the victim was slammed against the wall
and died of blunt force trauma to the head.

Her body was found on Thursday of last week by her son, who came
to the apartment with relatives after they had not heard from
her for two days. Pompee was there when her body was discovered.
A foot was protruding from a duffel bag.

"The closet, you know, was partially open with all the clothes
pulled out," Pompee said. "And one of the inlaws said, 'I
believe there's a body in that bag. Can you please open it?' The
firemen did, and he announced there was a body in there."

Many of Vitels' belongings were tossed down the garbage chute.

The suspects stole her Lexus and fled across the George
Washington Bridge through New Jersey to Pennsylvania, where they
crashed in Lower Paxton Township, just outside Harrisburg.

Local police in Pennsylvania did not run the license plate until
the day after the crash, giving the two the opportunity to get
away.

Detectives recovered surveillance video of the two visiting
multiple car dealerships, attempting to buy a new car for
$1,000. They were not successful.

The squatters were able to occupy the apartment, which has no
front door, through the building's elevator, which opens
directly into the space. The elevator requires key access and
detectives are still figuring out how the two got the elevator
to open on Vitels' floor.

Pompee told Eyewitness News he'd never seen them before.

"As far as this connection between the perpetrators, nobody
knows," Pompee said. "I've never seen them before. The last we
saw of the victim was on Tuesday, going up to the apartment. I
can't imagine treating someone's life, you know, so heartlessly."

Investigators have recovered surveillance video of Vitels
waiting for alternate side parking rules to park her Lexus on
East 31st Street before entering the apartment building, and of
the suspects driving away in the vehicle after she was killed.

The motive is still not clear.

https://abc7ny.com/nyc-squatters-murder-pennsylvania/14558280/

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