Dylan Ramirez, just 17 years old, was a high school student, a resident of East Los Angeles.
Family members said that on Tuesday he was in Koreatown with a friend looking for a place to eat, when they were unexpectedly surprised by a gunshot wound that claimed his life.
“I won’t be able to see him anymore, I won’t be able to hug him anymore, I won’t be able to see him grow anymore”, heartbroken Don Ricardo Ramirez, can’t accept that he can no longer hold his son in his arms Dylan, who was killed on Tuesday by a bullet impact during an attempted robbery.
“He was a boy who sometimes helps me work, he liked to live with me,” said Ricardo.
The violent incident happened around 10:30 p.m. in the 3100 block of 7th Street in Koreatown, when Dylan, just 17, was with a friend in a parked vehicle.
At this point the suspect approached and confronted them, apparently intending to rob them, when he shot Dylan at close range.
Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Aaron Ponce said “the suspect escaped on foot.”
Police report that Dylan’s companion attempted to take him to a nearby hospital, on the way he found uniformed officers who called paramedics to try to give him first aid, but all efforts were unsuccessful. been unsuccessful.
“Boys can’t go out on the street to buy something anymore, to do what they have to do, because there is already danger everywhere, everyone has a gun,” said Gloria Ramirez, the Dylan’s aunt.
Dylan’s loved ones gathered at the crime scene and said a prayer in his memory. They remembered him as a cheerful young man, full of life and with a great future ahead of him.
“He wasn’t involved in things, he was a child of his house and it’s very sad that someone, just because, took his life,” Aunt Gloria said.
Moreover, they sent a message to the authorities asking for justice.
“Let the authorities do everything possible to find this person, to arrest him so that he does not harm anyone anymore,” Ricardo said.
Anyone with information about the murder has been asked to call 877-LAPD-247.