Squatter who beat Manhattan homeowner to death used terrifying tool in sick attack: prosecutors

Source: New York Post

A ruthless teen squatter who helped beat a mother to death inside a Manhattan apartment admitted to bashing the doomed woman five times with a metal frying pan, it was revealed at her sentencing Friday. The grisly new detail was unearthed as Kensley Alston, 20, was sentenced to 20 years-to-life in prison for bludgeoning beloved mom Natalie Vitels, after the woman found her and boyfriend,Halley Tejada, holed up in Vitels’ Kips Bay apartment in 2024. 5 Alston was sentenced to 20 years-to-life in prison for the murder of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels Brigitte Stelzer/Pool Vitels’ heartbroken son, Misha, 23, said in a victim impact speech that even he didn’t know the gruesome detail to the murder.