The devastated son of the New York mom stomped to death by a ruthless squatter in her Manhattan apartment repeatedly branded the cold-blooded killer an “animal” — stressing he “stole” her life just as she was finally planning a new chapter after years of caring for her ill parents.
Halley Tejada, 21, was hit with the fiery tongue-lashing in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday when he was slapped with a 20 years to life in prison sentence for viciously killing Nadia Vitels before stuffing her in a duffel bag and tossing it in a closet at her Kips Bay pad in March 2024.
“My mom and I were a family of two; it was just us against the world,” her son, Michael Medvedev, said in a heartbreaking statement, describing his slain mom as an entrepreneur with “an infectious laugh.”
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