Overview
- Tejada was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court to 20 years to life after pleading guilty in December to second-degree murder.
- Prosecutors say he and Kensly Alston had been squatting in Vitels' Kips Bay apartment in March 2024 when she returned, and they beat her and hid her body in a duffel bag.
- The medical examiner ruled she died from blunt-force head trauma, and her son later found her body in a closet.
- According to the indictment, the pair fled in her Lexus to Pennsylvania, crashed the SUV, were arrested in York, and used her credit cards for purchases including a PS5, AirPods, clothes, food, and a diamond ring.
- Alston has pleaded not guilty and her case remains pending.