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New York prosecutors have charged a Venezuelan man with tried homicide in a throat slashing try that consultants warn might be a possible copycat try forward of an anticipated responsible plea from the suspected Gilgo Seashore serial killer.
“This defendant allegedly drove a person that he knew to a distant seashore and attacked him from behind with a knife,” Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney mentioned in a press release.
“The proof recovered from his automobile raises critical questions on what he supposed that evening.”
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A break up picture exhibiting individuals strolling on the south shore of Lengthy Island at Gilgo Seashore in Babylon, New York, U.S., July 18, 2023, and the mugshot of Venezuelan nationwide Ruben Ramirez, who was accused of tried homicide on the seashore, based on a newly unsealed indictment. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Ruben Guanipa Ramirez, 26, is accused of smothering an unidentified male sufferer’s mouth with a rag earlier than stabbing him from behind within the left aspect and trying to slash his throat.
Police later searched Ramirez’s automotive, a 2024 Lexus NX250, and allegedly discovered a number of knives, rope, duct tape, blankets, plastic drop cloths, a “large-wheeled bag,” gloves and a field cutter.
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An indication welcoming guests to Gilgo Seashore outdoors the tunnel that connects the car parking zone to the seashore beneath Ocean Parkway. (Michael Ruiz/Fox Information)
Ramirez’s immigration standing was not instantly clear. He is being held on the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead — the identical facility housing Gilgo Seashore suspect Rex Heuermann, 62.
Whereas authorities haven’t publicly spoken of any connection between the crimes, observers like retired NYPD sergeant Joseph Giacalone, former head of the NYPD’s Bronx Chilly Case Unit, see alarming similarities.
“Was this a copycat crime… associated to what’s taking place with Rex Heuermann within the information?” mentioned Giacalone, who has been following the Gilgo case for years.
“They should take a protracted exhausting have a look at this man.”
Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann is escorted into Decide Tim Mazzei’s courtroom at Suffolk County Courtroom in Riverhead for a frye listening to on July 17, 2025, in Riverhead, New York. The listening to was to find out if vital DNA proof will probably be allowed within the trial. The 61-year-old has pleaded not responsible to homicide fees within the deaths of seven girls between 1993 and 2011. (James Carbone-Pool/Getty Photos)
He mentioned the objects recovered from Ramirez’s automotive had been notably regarding, noting Heuermann’s alleged victims had been discovered sure with duct tape and wrapped in burlap or plastic.
Some had been dismembered.
Previous to the assault within the Gilgo Seashore car parking zone, Ramirez allegedly drove the sufferer to a pool corridor in Nassau County after which Jones Seashore, one other waterfront close by — the place Heuermann as soon as labored on the summer time seashore patrol.
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Suffolk County District Legal professional Ray Tierney speaks to reporters throughout a information convention in Riverhead, N.Y., Thursday, June 6, 2024. (AP Photograph/Seth Wenig)
“Through the altercation, the sufferer sustained defensive wounds to his fingers however was in a position to wrestle the knife away from Ramirez,” Tierney’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
The sufferer managed to grab management of Ramirez’s automotive, name 911 and drive himself to a pal’s condo in Queens, the place the NYPD met up with him and he obtained medical remedy.
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State police discovered Ramirez strolling alongside the Lengthy Island Expressway hours later.
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That is greater than 20 miles from the place prosecutors mentioned the sufferer escaped from him on the aspect of Ocean Parkway — the distant waterfront freeway made notorious after police discovered 11 our bodies simply east of Gilgo Seashore in 2010 and 2011.
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Ramirez is being held on $200,000 money bail, $500,000 bond or $2 million partially secured bond.
He is due again in courtroom on April 29 and faces as much as 25 years in jail if convicted of probably the most critical cost of tried homicide.
