By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

A 23-year-old resident of Umatac was arrested at 4 a.m. on Saturday for allegedly killing his former employer, 42-year-old Un Chong Kim, whose body was found on Thursday at Sella Bay overlook.
Alvin Nash Quinata, 23, was arrested by the Guam Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Section.
Quinata was charged by police with aggravated murder, possession and use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony, theft of a motor vehicle, destruction of evidence, and arson. He was booked and confined on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, Quinata appeared before the Superior Court of Guam and was officially charged with aggravated assault as a first-degree felony. He pled guilty to the charge in that same hearing. He is being held on $1 million bail.
According to the magistrate’s complaint, an unnamed employee of Kim—owner of Black Hole in Hagatna—told investigators that the last time she heard from Kim was at 12 noon on Wednesday.
“Mrs. Kim informed her that she was in Agat to meet with a former employee, Alvin Nash Quinata. According to the employee, Mrs. Kim said Quinata owed her a substantial amount of money and he had arranged to meet her in Agat,” according to the magistrate complaint.
The court document said another employee of Kim said she had overheard a conversation between Kim and her mother that she was going to meet with Quinata later that day.
Kim’s daughter also told police that she had overheard “many arguments” her mother had over the phone with a man known as “Alvin.” Kim’s daughter also stated that the argument was about a large amount of money “Alvin” owed her mother.
According to court documents, a park maintenance employee went to work at the Sella Bay overlook park in Umatac to cut brush on Thursday morning. When he got there, he noticed what appeared to be a bloody trial in the parking lot.
“The individual followed the bloody trail into the jungle area where he discovered the dead body. Guam Police arrived and it was later determined that the body was that of Mrs. Kim. According to chief medical examiner Dr. Aurelio Espinola, Mrs. Kim was a victim of homicide and that the cause of death was blunt trauma to the head and stab wounds to her neck and chest,” the magistrate complaint reads.
Later that day, according to court documents, police located Kim’s 1998 black Ford Ranger “300 yards away from the Vietnam Heroes Memorial Park” close to where Quinata lived. The vehicle was intentionally set on fire and was nearly destroyed.
Police then checked into Kim’s cellular phone calls and discovered that she made several calls that day to Quinata’s home. Her cell phone call log also showed an incoming call from the Circle K76 gas station in Anigua at 11:41 a.m. on Jan. 17.
Police retrieved surveillance footage from the gas station and found that it was Quinata who made a phone call that corresponded with Kim’s cellular phone call log.
Witnesses told police they saw Quinata walking along Route 2—the Agat/Umatac Road—in the direction of the memorial park late in the evening of Jan. 17. Later that same night, police received information on a car fire near the park, according to court documents.
Police learned through one of Quinata’s neighbors that Quinata said he needed a ride to the police station “because he beat up his boss and he needed the friend to tell police that Quinata was at his mother’s work.”
Quinata later showed up at the police station, but denied any involvement with Kim.
Kim was reported missing by her family at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Police began searching for her in the Agat/Umatac area where she was last seen by witnesses.
It wasn’t until Thursday that her body was discovered at the Sella Bay overlook. The following day, Kim’s husband identified the body as that of his wife.