Suspect in LA club car-ramming charged with 37 counts of attempted murder | Los Angeles
Prosecutors said on Tuesday that the driver was accused of throwing his car into a crowd outside a Los Angeles nightclub during the weekend.
29 -year -old Fernando Ramirez was accused of 37 heavy attacks with a deadly weapon. If he is convicted, he may face more than one life imprisonment.
Ramirez is accused of deliberately taking his car to the sidewalk as he left Vermont Hollywood at the end of a Reggae Hip-Hop event on Saturday. The motive of the attack that wounded 37 people was still unknown.
A phone number for Ramirez could not search for an online database, and the public advocacy office said they were not assigned to represent him.
La District Regional Lawyer Nathan Hochman announced the accusations, “When he put the car on that sidewalk, he targeted in an entire pedestrian sea,” he said.
The car stopped after colliding with a few food cart placed under the vehicle and said the audience attacked the driver. The injuries changed from small to serious fractures and lacerations, and some people were briefly trapped under the vehicle.
After escaping from the stage, Ramirez was later shot on the lower back, but the authorities did not describe the suspect armed man. Authorities said they were still looking for a shooter on Tuesday.
Hochman said, this may be a mass wounded event for the shook of society and the good grace of God, ”Hochman said. He added that eight people were experiencing “big bodily injury”.
La Fire Department Ronnie Villanueva, the Provisional Fire Department, said 23 people were taken to hospitals among the wounded.
La Police Chief Jim McDonnell said, “It is really a miracle that no one was killed on that day,” he said.
In 2014, Ramirez has a criminal history of battery and gang, a black man in a Whole Foods market in Laguna Beach in California, and a heavy battery conviction against domestic violence in 2021.
In the 2019 attack, he was also sentenced to a civil rights misdemeanor, and the attack was considered a hate crime for saying that he hated black people to the police. However, in 2021, a California Court of Appeal said that after calling the fifth amendment rights, he made this statement and only the battery conviction was allowed to stop. Ramirez was released for more than two years of imprisonment and prison.
Orange County prosecutors, a court applied to the 2019 attack, “Ramirez proved to the foreigners and family and family, and there was a lack of concern about the safety of others,” he said.
According to the records, 2024 drunk driving cases and 2022 domestic violence were expected during the nightclub accident.
