Police Identify Suspect Accused Of Fatal Island Park Valley Stream Stabbings
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Key Points:
- Rony Yahir Alvarenga Rivera, 22, has been identified by Nassau Police as the suspect in the fatal stabbings of two women in separate Nassau communities on Friday.
- The first victim, a 42-year-old coworker, was stabbed to death outside a Wendy’s in Island Park shortly after midnight while taking out the garbage.
- Alvarenga Rivera called police to confess the first stabbing and was later arrested outside a 7-Eleven in Lynbrook after admitting to killing someone that night.
- The second victim, a 32-year-old woman who lived with Alvarenga Rivera in Valley Stream, was found with similar stab wounds several hours later.
- Alvarenga Rivera, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2016 at age 12, faces multiple murder charges and has pleaded not guilty.
