Surveillance Camera Captures Ramirez Murder Suspects

On Thursday, we reported the tragic shooting of thirty-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, who had provided information that led to the incarceration of attorney Oscar Selgado. News Five obtained surveillance footage showing two men on a motorcycle driving up beside Ramirez on Amandala Drive around 1:30 PM and opening fire. Today, a mother shared with News Five that she passes that very spot every day with her young son on their way to school. News Five’s Marion Ali has more on this story.

 

Marion Ali, Reporting

Today, the street where Giovanni Ramirez was killed on Thursday was eerily quiet. Normally, Amandala Drive is bustling with parents picking up their kids from school in the afternoon. We spoke with a mother who told us she walks that same street every day to take her son to school. On Thursday afternoon, she had just passed the spot when she heard the gunshots.

 

Voice of: Area Resident

“Me walking to St. Martin School, to ker my son. I talk to the principal when we hear the gun and the people come out, check outside. When we come back out from school, we can’t pass back deh. The police done close right deh. Nobody could pass right deh. We hear only somebody dead in a red car.”

 

Marion Ali

“ You missed being in the direct path of the gunshots by what, just a few minutes?”

 

Voice of: Area Resident

“Mm hmm, yeah. I come over quick, and I lock up.”

 

Marion Ali

“You pass this street every day around that time?”

 

Voice of: Area Resident

“Yes. Every day same time – eleven-fifteen, go for my son for lunch. Right now, twelve, bring. Bring him back and one-forty-five come back for him, same time.”

 

Ramirez had reportedly just left Cemetery Road and was on his way to visit family in CET Site when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. Today, a relative told us that he was targeted out of jealousy. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams mentioned that the police would be reviewing security camera footage to identify the suspects.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“We do have security footages that we are looking at this time. And if it is that we are unable to identify those persons in the footage, then we’ll release it to the public so that they can help us identify who they are.”

 

Voice of: Relative

“Sometimes jealousy is a bad thing. When people see you’re trying to uplift yourself and get out of a narrative that people trying to paint you as, jealousy and envy is a bad thing in this city.”

 

Marion Ali

“You think it somebody who was jealous?”

 

Voice of: Relative

“It was jealousy.”

 

Marion Ali

“Of what?”

 

Voice of: Relative

“Just because you’re coming up. People hate to see you driving; people hate to see you’re living good, doing better things, not negativity – better things in life. And so people try to carry you down with them. It doesn’t matter.  As long as you’re doing better than someone, and they’re watching you doing better than them, they perceive you…”

 

Marion Ali

“That was a lot of bullets the police picked up. You don’t think there was a dispute that resulted in so many bullets being fired?”

 

Voice of: Relative

“There was no dispute.”

 

Marion Ali for News Five.