About a year after he lost his life from an overdose allegedly caused by a gang of thieves who stole his credit card, Julio Ramírez’s parents demanded that the authorities find those responsible.
The 25-year-old man had gone to a bar in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan.
There he was approached by suspects who drugged him with fentanyl without his consent to take his belongings.
In total, the thieves stole more than $21,000 from his cards.
A few days ago, the authorities warned that They have counted 43 confirmed victims of this type of assault, of which seven died of overdose.
Although it was believed that criminals only appeared in gay bars, it has been revealed that they also drug men and women to steal their belongings in all kinds of nightclubs.
The authorities indicated that there are two different gangs that operate and is searching for 6 suspects.
However, so far there are no detainees.
Julio Ramírez, father of the victim, criticized the police for not having found the culprits yet. “The police don’t do anything, they don’t do their job now,” he lamented.
“They say that the investigation is underway, we are on the track, but there are never any results,” he said.
His mother, Ana Ramírez, demanded that they find those responsible.
“In New York with so many cameras, couldn’t they have recorded him leaving with the men? and do nothing,” she noted.
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The mother says she was “destroyed” by the news that a court overturned the defendant’s conviction for killing her son nearly five years ago.
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This week a New York court revoked the life sentence of Jonaiki Martínez-Estrella, accused of murdering Lesandro Guzmán in 2018, whom she affectionately called ‘Junior’.
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Lesandra Feliz, was at work when the verdict was delivered and was surprised by the news, when Yeila Lluberes, from Noticias 41, sought her out to ask her reaction.
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“I wish I had dropped dead,” said the pained woman upon learning that the sentence she had given on October 11, 2019, was annulled, Judge Robert Neary.
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The judge had sentenced Martínez-Estrella to life in prison without parole for Ju’s first-degree murder conviction, which involved an element of “torture.”
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On June 20, 2018, the young man, who dreamed of being a policeman, was going to pay $5 that he owed at a bodega, when 15 members of the Los Trinitarios gang cornered him and attacked him at the point of machetes and knives.
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Estrella, who was 24 years old when he committed the crime, was convicted of stabbing ‘Junior’ with a knife in the side of the neck, penetrating 4.5 inches and cutting his jugular. The teenager had bruises, scratches and small puncture wounds on his body, but it was that stab wound that caused his death, a medical examiner said.
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Upon learning that Estrella’s first-degree murder conviction was overturned, Junior’s mother said, “I didn’t know. I lost my breath, I couldn’t breathe, I wish I had dropped dead from one, and that’s how all this ended. How long will it end? How long are we going to continue with this nightmare?
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She considers that not only she is affected by this measure. “This is an abuse against society and the community. Here there is no respect for human rights, nor do we have any protection, the humble people who live in a community”.
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He also believes that this measure encourages crime: “Here they are going to kill us all, making that kind of mess, who have no value for minors or for the people who live working here, right now they are giving a lot of priority to criminals That is why they are killing people like this, crime here is not going to end.”
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Lesandra Feliz’s pain, she says, has no comfort. “They don’t even pay with their lives for the abuse they did, those 15 abusive men, looking for innocent people on the street, my son was an innocent child, he was not a criminal, he was not a tiger that they killed like them, they are gangsters, they are criminals Why do you support criminals so much?”
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And he adds: “They are all equally guilty for me, the one who gave the final and the one who did not give it to them. They all killed him. It was an abuse. Drop 15 men on a single boy. They are all the same, they should all be in jail for life. Not a single All for life.”
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He does not even understand why two of the defendants are now free: “They released two of the murderers, also Michael Sosa and Kevin Álvarez, who were the ones who testified against themselves. They were not charged, for being protected witnesses, because they were speaking against their own murderers. And now what happened? And now that?”.
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Now he fears that the other defendants will also appeal. “I can not articulate words. Is incredible. If they did that with this one, the other 15 are going to do the same, the other 13 that were sentenced are going to do the same. And there are 2 of the 15 who were released, because they were protected witnesses, who walk free without charge.”
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Lesandra Feliz does not know what to do in this situation. “If they are released we will all have to be gang members, that is what crime is bringing here, because if one cannot count on the personal civil defense that the government should provide, what do we have left? Make us all delinquents?”
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In the face of so much anguish, he says, his strength is his faith, and this will be his way of getting ahead: “With God ahead and the strength of God.”
