STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One thousand four hundred and fifty two days and counting have passed since 23-year-old Carlos Alfonso was found shot to death near the Slosson Avenue exit of the Staten Island Expressway.
His killer still remains unknown, leaving his family yearning for closure.
“My daughter is about to be 30-years-old,” said Yvette Espada, Alfonso’s mother, during a phone call with the Advance/SILive.com. “She’s feeling it because her brother’s not here.”
“She’s overwhelmed,” said Espada.
A T-shirt honoring the life of 23-year-old Carlos Alfonso. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
Then a father-to-be, Alfonso is believed to have been shot multiple times where his body was discovered on the New Jersey-bound side of the expressway at around 11:45 p.m. on Sept. 2, 2019, a law-enforcement source previously told the Advance/SILive.com.
Known as “Lito,” Alfonso was transported to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
Espada said she has been left “in tears” out of frustration since her son’s death, lamenting what she said is a lack of progress in his case. The NYPD declined an Advance/SILive.com request to interview the detective assigned to the homicide.
Sources previously told the Advance/SILive.com that Alfonso, a West Brighton resident, was allegedly an associate of a street crew on the North Shore and had a troubled past with links to drugs; however, his family offered fervent pushback against that claim.
“He wasn’t a bad kid,” Espada said in 2020. “They’re saying he was a drug dealer, he was a gang member. He was none of that.” Alfonso was turning his life around and was about two months away from becoming a father to a baby boy, his relatives said.
A poster hung in the home of Jose Espada in memory of his brother, Carlos Alfonso, who died one year ago in 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
Alfonso’s death was one of 13 homicides that…
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