In the days before the point-blank shooting death of Marivel Estevez in Mineola, Nassau County prosecutors say, she told friends that her boyfriend was having trouble coping with her decision to leave Long Island for a Florida job. Estevez, a building management worker, who lived in the luxurious new complex, The Allure at 140 Old Country Road, told co-workers and friends that Mark Small, 57, was following her around, begging her to stay. "Baby are you sure about leaving me alone, I can’t live without you," Assistant District Attorney Tracy Keeton quoted texts from Small to Estevez in the weeks before her death.
When no one heard from her in the final days of July 2022, family had police perform a wellness check and they found her dead, shot once in the head and once in the neck, Keeton said. "He couldn’t take it," the prosecutor told the jury Wednesday during closing arguments in the murder and weapons case against Small. "If he couldn’t have her, no one would.
So he shot her twice in her bed. He got his wish." Follow the latest developments in the Gilgo Beach killings investigation.
By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy . Keeton acknowledged that much of the case hangs on circumstantial evidence — surveillance footage of Small leaving the victim's building around 3:30 a.m.
, days before she was found dead, a key fob in his possession that was the last to lock her apartment door and his DNA on the murder weapon. That is enough, she said, for the jurors .
