Trio Charged In Murder Of Man Found Dead In Abandoned Suffolk County Home

Three people have been charged with murder in the death of a 22-year-old man who was found dead inside an abandoned Suffolk County home in April, police said.

Dequanna Bates, 24, Joshua Nickens, 25, and Larry Dennis, 47, all of Hoffman Avenue in Bellport, are each charged with second degree murder and first degree kidnapping, according to Suffolk Police.

Early on the morning of April 1, a man entered 140 Long Island Ave. in Wyandanch in an effort to escape weather conditions and found Alan Moore, of Hempstead, strangled to death inside the abandoned home.

Bates, Nickens and Dennis were scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at First District Court in Central Islip.

Moore was found dead inside this home in April. (Google Maps image)