Bronx lacking lady: Police cost ex-boyfriend after 26-year-old Pamela Alcantara’s physique present in suitcase in Yonkers

YONKERS, New York (WABC) — Police arrested and charged the ex-boyfriend of a girl from the Bronx whose physique was present in a suitcase in Yonkers on Thursday, in line with regulation enforcement sources.

Junior Perez Diaz, 46, was charged with homicide, manslaughter and two counts of kidnapping on Friday.

It comes after the physique of 26-year-old Pamela Alcantara, who was reported lacking on Sunday, was discovered close to the Palmer Highway exit off the northbound aspect of the Noticed Mill River Parkway on the border of Yonkers and the Bronx.

Police have been in a position to observe down Alcantara’s 46-year-old ex-boyfriend after a license plate reader pinged his automotive alongside parkway round 9:50 a.m. on Thursday.

The NYPD searched a marshy space alongside the roadway the place his car stopped, and a drone noticed a purple suitcase containing her physique in a shallow marshy space. She was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

Diaz was taken into custody quickly after.

Alcantara’s household says they’re sure it was him who dedicated this horrible act.

“It was my feeling after I noticed stuff on the ground, the blanket,” mentioned Alcantara’s aunt Isa Peguero.

Alcantara’s household says they noticed indicators of a battle on Monday after they entered the condo Alcantara shared along with her now ex-boyfriend on Morris Avenue within the Bronx,

They are saying Alcantara not too long ago broke off their three-year relationship and was within the means of transferring out from the condo.

“She was supposed to maneuver, and I believe he came upon,” Isa Peguero mentioned. “He used to place a recorder on the automotive and recorder within the bed room so he can know all the pieces what occurred, what’s she doing?”

“‘Mother pray for me,’ she mentioned that to her final Thursday,” Alcantara’s cousin Naysa Peguero mentioned. “She mentioned, ‘mother, I simply need you to hope for me,’ and that was all.”

Her household reported the 26-year-old lacking to police on Sunday after she did not present up for church, which they are saying was extremely uncommon conduct for the spiritual lady. She was a chaplain with the Latin American Chaplain Affiliation

“She went to church, she went dwelling, she spoke along with her mother each day and he or she solely frolicked with church associates and went to work. That was it,” Alcantara’s cousin Naysa Peguero mentioned.

Surveillance video exhibits her entering into an elevator in her constructing simply after midnight on Sunday, and there’s no video of her leaving. It was the final recognized sighting of her alive.

Sources advised Eyewitness Information that the ex-boyfriend initially advised police he final noticed Alcantara leaving the condo in her pajamas with a purple suitcase, one thing the surveillance video does not present. Proof recovered by detectives later revealed that was not correct, and he requested a lawyer.

The NYPD is now ready on post-mortem outcomes from the Westchester County medical expert on Alcantara.

Regardless of the purple flags, nobody in her household suspected she was in any hazard, however they are saying Alcantara made a request throughout considered one of her final conversations along with her mother.

“The one factor she advised my aunt is she mentioned, ‘Mother pray for me,’ she mentioned that to her final Thursday. She mentioned, ‘mother I simply need you to hope for me.’ And that was all,” Naysa Peguero mentioned.

Her household is now devastated. They are saying she was so near transferring on along with her life.

They’ve arrange a GoFundMe, as Alcantara’s physique shall be buried within the Dominican Republic.

Neighborhood and religion leaders are rallying round Alcantara’s household Friday night outdoors her Morris Avenue constructing

The candlelight vigil is being led by the Latin American Chaplain Affiliation (LACA) and former NYC Councilman Fernando Cabrera alongside Alcantara’s mom.

“That is the primary time the household is popping out with the neighborhood to have a second of prayer, to have a second of remembrance, to have a second to worth her life,” Cabrera mentioned. “As a result of she had a life properly lived. She was a younger woman, 26 years outdated who went to church 4, 5 instances every week.”

Cabrera is the pastor of the church that may host Alcantara’s wake, that hasn’t been scheduled but as a result of her physique remains to be on the medical expert’s workplace.

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