Exclusive | Migrant charged with killing NYC landlady in rent dispute was allowed into US as an unaccompanied minor: sources

A Colombian migrant charged with killing his Queens landlady in a rent dispute was allowed into the US as an unaccompanied minor — and the victim’s outraged sister says authorities kept it quiet until it was too late.Davi Vidal, 20, crossed the border illegally in San Luis, Arizona, in June 2022 when he was 17, and was allowed to remain in the country as an unescorted minor — standard practice for lone underaged migrants who are freed into the country for “humanitarian reasons.”Sources said Vidal, who told authorities he has an aunt in Wisconsin, was due for an immigration hearing after being cut loose, with the date scheduled for early next year.But on Dec.

7, 2023, Vidal was still free when he allegedly got into a rent dispute with his landlord, Zoraida Leo, 55, and attacked her, leaving her to die inside her building on 96th Street near Northern Boulevard in East Elmhurst, police said.Only then did US Immigration and Customs Enforcement place a detainer on the migrant.“He’s a migrant who crossed the border illegally,” Maria Leo, the victim’s sister and a naturalized citizen from the Dominican Republic, told The Post.“How is it that the federal government let this delinquent go, only for him to kill an innocent woman — my sister.

Vidal is an assassin.“This person should get the stiffest sentence under the law” she said.” After he serves his time here, he should be immediately deported so that he can never do harm to anyone here again.”Maria Leo maintained that Vidal’s immigration status was never mentioned when Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the murder indictment against him.Even worse, federal law enforcement sources eventually confirmed that the accused killer migrant had been caught at the border and released, prior to allegedly committing murder in the Big Apple.Maria Leon even provided The Post a copy of the defendant’s Colombian passport.Meanwhile, the city Corrections Department, which declined to commen...