Nassau Police shared particulars Saturday in regards to the suspect within the stabbing deaths of two girls greater than 24 hours earlier.
Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, 22, is charged with First Diploma and Second Diploma Homicide, Police Chief Patrick Ryder informed reporters. “Each females have been have been killed by a number of stab wounds to the neck and torso,” he mentioned.
Authorities say Alvarenga Rivera knew each victims. One of many girls, a 42-year-old, was killed whereas taking out rubbish on the Wendy’s restaurant the place she labored at 33 Austin Blvd. in Island Park. Alvarenga Rivera additionally labored on the Wendy’s. The girl killed at that location was a mom of two kids, ages 8 and 1 1/2.
Officers answering a 9-1-1 name discovered her physique exterior the eatery round 12:30 A.M. Friday. “When the officers responded, they noticed a woman, a younger woman, with blood,” mentioned George Darienzo, Commanding Officer of the Nassau Police murder unit. Efforts to revive the girl failed.
Alvarenga Rivera lived on the similar condo constructing as the opposite sufferer, a 32-year-old. She was discovered stabbed to loss of life at her residence on West Mineola Ave. in Valley Stream. Her physique was found shortly after 3:00 A.M. Friday. Investigators suppose she was killed Thursday night time round 9:00 P.M.
The names of each victims have been being withheld Saturday afternoon till family members might be notified. Police mentioned Alvarenga Rivera and the Valley Stream sufferer every rented bedrooms. “So far as a relationship, I am not conscious of particular home relationship between these two.”
When requested a couple of doable motive for the killings, Darienzo replied, “I will sum it up in a single phrase: anger.” He didn’t elaborate.
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Nassau County Police Dept. Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, 22, is charged within the stabbing deaths of two girls in Nassau County. Their our bodies have been discovered at separate places Friday morning. (Picture: NBC New York by way of Nassau County Police Dept.)
On the information convention, Nassau County Govt Bruce Blakeman slammed what he known as “open borders” immigration insurance policies below prior presidential administrations. He says Alvarenga Rivera got here to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor a decade in the past, when he was 12. He’s a local of El Salvador and has no identified gang connection, mentioned Darienzo.
“In 2022, the federal authorities had a program the place any unaccompanied minors that have been in the US routinely would obtain papers that allow them keep right here legally within the type, I consider, of a inexperienced card,” Blakeman mentioned.
Blakeman, a Republican, is working for governor in opposition to incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat.
Investigators on the scene of a girl’s killing in Valley Stream. (Picture: NBC New York)
“It’s scary, it’s very scary,” mentioned Angela Bleuler of Valley Stream, who lives close to the scene of the condo stabbing. “I’ve lived right here my complete life and that is too near residence”
A girl talking to NBC New York close to that crime scene mentioned she realized in regards to the Wendy’s assault on social media, “and i believed that was dangerous sufficient. I had no concept it was tied to something right here.”
A girl was stabbed to loss of life Thursday night time at a Valley Stream condo, whereas one other lady was stabbed to loss of life whereas taking out the trash at a Wendy’s in Island Park hours later, police mentioned. (Picture: NBC New York by way of Google Earth)
Nassau Police say the person who they believes is answerable for each deaths was apprehended at a 7-Eleven retailer on Atlantic Ave. in Lynbrook. “Whereas we have been at that scene (in Valley Stream), we acquired data that a person who was stopped at 169 Atlantic Avenue in Lynbrook, he requested to see the police, mentioned Darienzo.
“When the police arrived, he mentioned he had killed someone that night time.”
“I’m shocked. It’s horrible. That is very quiet. I don’t count on something like that right here,” the girl close to the Valley Stream location informed Information 4.
The second sufferer died whereas taking out rubbish at a Wendy’s in Island Park (Picture: NBC New York)
“The world is a loopy place, and you’ll’t actually be too positive of the individuals which are straight in entrance of you typically, you already know,” added neighbor Rumeal Richards. “So it is somewhat scary.”
