4 Charged With Murder In Failed Suffolk Home Invasion: Prosecutors

HUNTINGTON STATION, NY — Two women and two teen boys were charged with second-degree murder in connection with a deadly, botched home invasion in Huntington Station in 2021, prosecutors said Friday.

Jillian Kolsch, 20, of Smithtown; Jahshawn Strickland, 17, of Bay Shore; Jonray Perez, 17, of Babylon; and Kayla Alvarenga, 20, of Deer Park botched a home invasion that led to the fatal shooting of Louis Lombardo, 28, of Dix Hills, said Raymond Tierney, the Suffolk County district attorney.

“These defendants allegedly conspired to commit a violent armed robbery, and needlessly took the life of an occupant in the home in the process,” Tierney stated. “Now, they will have to answer for this senseless killing.”

Kolsch, Strickland, Perez and Alvarenga, as well as another person that prosecutors did not name, planned a robbery during a marijuana deal on Oct. 27, 2021, prosecutors said.

Strickland and the unnamed person planned to set up a dealer by pretending to buy marijuana from him, and for Alvarenga and Perez to then rob the seller of his marijuana and money, prosecutors said.

Strickland and the other person went to the garage of the dealer’s Huntington Station house, pretending they were there to buy marijuana, officials said.

Alvarenga and Perez, both armed with guns, approached the home’s garage, officials said, and Kolsch waited in the car as the getaway driver.

Alvarenga and Perez found the garage door locked, so they yelled at the occupants and demanded they open the door or they would use violence, the district attorney's office said.

A group member then fired a shot through the closed garage door, killing Lombardo, a friend of the dealer who was in the garage at the time, prosecutors said.

Evidence includes video surveillance from inside and outside the garage.

Kolsch was charged with second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery and a count of fourth-degree conspiracy, all felonies. She appeared in court Thursday and was remanded without bail. She is represented by Thomas Speer.

Alvarenga was charged with second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of fourth-degree conspiracy, all felonies. She was also charged with two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. She appeared in court Jan. 6 and was remanded without bail. She is represented by Christopher Gioe.

Strickland was charged with second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery, and two counts of fourth-degree conspiracy, all felonies. He appeared in court Monday and was remanded without bail. He is represented by John Halverson.

Perez was charged with second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree robbery and a count of fourth-degree conspiracy, all felonies. He was also charged with a misdemeanor count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He appeared in court Monday and was remanded without bail. He is represented by Matthew Tuohy.