Teen squatters wanted in death of NYC mom found in duffel bag busted in Pennsylvania after fleeing in her car

Two fugitive squatters eyed within the slaying of a girl whose physique was discovered stuffed in a duffel bag in a Manhattan condominium had been busted in Pennsylvania Friday morning, police sources instructed The Put up — as grisly new pictures emerged of the blood-stained closet the place the sufferer was stashed.

Halley Tejada, 19, and Kensly Alston, 18, had been tracked down by US Marshals deputies in York, west of Philadelphia, simply earlier than 11 a.m., and brought into custody the sources stated.

It got here slightly over every week after the physique of 52-year-old Nadia Vitel was discovered hidden in her late mother’s Nineteenth-floor condominium on East thirty first Avenue final week.

Investigators believed the suspects had been squatting within the upscale condominium and beat Vitel to loss of life after they got here face-to-face along with her there, the NYPD stated Thursday.

The mother suffered blunt power trauma to the pinnacle, a number of facial fractures, a mind bleed and two damaged ribs — and her physique was then dumped within the duffel bag and stuffed in a closet.

A blood stain remained Thursday on the ground of the closet the place her physique was discovered and one of many partitions of the condominium had an enormous crack, grim pictures of the crime scene present.

The suspects had been seen on surveillance video fleeing the condominium within the wake of the slaying and taking off within the lifeless lady’s Lexus SUV, in line with cops.

They fled by New Jersey into Pennsylvania, the place they crashed the SUV in Decrease Paxton Township, police stated.

The pair had been utilizing the sufferer’s bank cards within the Keystone State, in line with law-enforcement sources.