The driver who, according to the police, intentionally entered a crowd early Saturday outside a popular music place by East Hollywood has already been found guilty of hatred crime in the County of Orange, a condemnation later canceled by a court of appeal, according to prosecutors and judicial archives.
Fernando Ramirez had 23 Sucker struck a 26 year old black employee Who had been on lunch break, breaking the man’s nose and seriously damaging his two front teeth, according to information at the time of the incident.
When asked by an officer why he did it, Ramirez said in a video recorded on video that it was, in part, because the worker was black, and that “he hated all blacks”, ” Judicial files to show.
This is part of a long criminal record that Ramirez accumulated in the years preceding the attack on Saturday evening. Orange county prosecutors have deposited 11 criminal cases in the past 11 years against him, including several violent charges.
Ramirez had been expelled from Vermont Hollywood Club before returning to the region in a vehicle around 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles police service. His vehicle struck street sellers and dozens of late evening clubs, according to police, causing several medical emergencies and engaging fear and anger among the crowd.
At least 36 victims suffered injuries ranging from minor pain to serious fractures and lacerations. Several individuals were hit by the vehicle and some were briefly trapped below. At least 23 people were hospitalized.
The passers -by fired Ramirez from his vehicle and attacked him – the video showed him struck and kicked – and, at one point, he was shot, said LAPD officials.
Captain of LAPD, Ben Fernandes, said that, while the safety of the nightclub was trying to hold Ramirer after leaving a chaotic and bloody scene, another man came on the other side of the street and shot the driver in the buttocks.
Norma officer Eisenman, a lapd spokesperson, said on Sunday that the person who fired on Ramirez was generally. Police released a description of the suspect. He was described as a man, Latino, about 5 feet 7 and 150 to 170 pounds. It was seen for the last time carrying a blue dodgers jacket, a light blue jersey with the number “5” and the blue jeans. He had gauges – a type of body jewelry – in both ears and a bearder. Anyone with information can call Stoppers crime to (800) 222-8477.
The police published a photo of the man accused of having shot Fernando Ramirez after Ramirez was lowered dozens of people outside an East Hollywood club.
(Los Angeles police department)
Ramirez had recovered from surgery for his injuries and was in a stable state, said Fernandes. Police said on Sunday that he had been arrested for suspicion of aggression with a deadly weapon with force likely to produce large bodily injuries.
Given the size of the crowd, Fernandes said that the incident could easily have spiral in a mass event.
“Quite honestly, I think it’s a miracle”, Fernandes said to NBC-4 News.
A witness told ABC-7 news that he had seen dozens of people on the ground after the accident. Another said it was “like a film”.
“You see shoes flying, you see change, money, there are hot dog stands that were outside the bar … They were touched,” said the witness.
Eduardo Lopez, who worked in his Taco truck at the bottom of rue de la Boîte de Nuit du early on Saturday, said he had heard the accident and the following cries.
He told NBC-4 that he had seen people running and “many injured people.”
A few hours after more than 120 paramedical firefighters and paramedics responded to the horrible scene, the popular music place remained strangely silent.
The event organizers canceled on Saturday which was to be a closed -stop show.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic incident that occurred early Saturday morning outside our place,” published the Vermont Hollywood Club in a press release online And outside its doors. “We are working in close collaboration with the police to ensure that the person responsible for this horrible act is fully responsible.”
Before the Saturday morning attack, Ramirez had already spent months behind bars.
On January 10, 2020, he was sentenced to four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of injuries with a serious injury, a violation of civil rights and an improvement in hatred crimes to attack a black Whole Foods employee.
However, a court of appeal in January 2021 canceled part of the verdict after the Court discovered a conversation registered with an officer raped the rights of Miranda de Ramirez. The Court of Appeal informed the violation of civil rights and the improvement of the crime of hatred and canceled the sentence, but confirmed the condemnation aggravated by the battery because it was not “affected by Miranda’s error”.
In 2020, Ramirez was found guilty of a 2019 battery on a police officer and resisted the arrest and obtained 180 days in prison.
In 2021, he was found guilty of assault with great bodily injury and two counts of resistance to arrest and was sentenced to 194 days in prison and a year of probation. The same year, he pleaded guilty to corporal injuries on a spouse and was sentenced to three years of probation with 234 days in prison.
Kimberly Edds, spokesperson for the Orange County District Prosecutor’s Office, said Ramirez had a conducting under the burden of influence, and a distinct domestic battery charge, including a violation of a protection order resulting from a incident in 2022, also pending in the courts of Orange County.
Staff writer Jaclyn Cosgrove contributed to this report.
