A sea of purple-clad runners and walkers — at the Bronx DA’s 5K race for domestic violence awareness — are working to figure out how they can make inroads to reducing domestic violence in Bronx homes and neighborhoods.
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Almost 13 years to the date after Hector Ramirez killed his wife in front of their then-9-year-old son in Kingsbridge Heights, he was sentenced for her murder.
According to an announcement by the Bronx District Attorney’s office, Ramirez, 42, was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter last month and sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday.
The investigation states that on Aug. 29, 2010, Ramirez stabbed his wife Ella Zamora, 28, in the chest inside their Kingsbridge Heights apartment after she tried to kick him out following an argument. She died later at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and her son — who witnessed the altercation between his parents — was taken into care by Zamora’s sister.
According to the television show America’s Most Wanted, Ramirez had accused Zamora of infidelity.
The case went cold as Ramirez fled the state and had been on the run for more than a decade, until he was finally apprehended in Las Vegas in February 2022 and extradited to the Bronx, according to the district attorney’s office.
According to an archived 2010 web page on America’s Most Wanted website, police were searching for Ramirez with possible locations in Mexico, where he is from, New York, where he moved to, and Salem, Oregon, where his sister lived at the time.
Ramirez was first indicted by a grand jury in September 2017 and charged with murder in the second degree, manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
He was convicted of Zamora’s murder by a jury trial in Bronx Supreme Court on June 5.
Bronx DA Darcel Clark said that Zamora’s son, Jesus Orlando, now 22 years old “bravely” testified…
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