Oakland police announced Friday that they have arrested an adult man and two teenagers in connection with the fatal shooting in which a mother of eight was gunned down by drug dealers outside her home earlier this month.
Oakland police made the announcement during a press conference late Friday morning. Ramos was fatally shot in East Oakland on August 7.
The shooting occurred in the afternoon on the 5600 block of Hilton Street. Officers arrived around 2:30 p.m. and found a victim with at least one gunshot wound. The person was pronounced dead at the scene.
As CBS News Bay Area reported earlier this weekthe incident occurred when ramos and her mother confronted a group in a car suspected of dealing drugs near the intersection of hilton street and bancroft avenue. police said she was shot by one of the people in the vehicle.
The death of the 33-year-old mother of eight children, aged 1 to 15, left the family devastated.
Her mother Blanca Velasco said Ramos’ 5-year-old daughter is still waiting for her mother to come home.
“She says, ‘I hear mommy died, but she’s coming back from the hospital, right grandma?'” said Blanca Velasco, Ramos’ mother. “I would be like, ‘yeah,’ because I don’t know how to tell her she’s not coming back.”
On Friday, Oakland police announced they were able to quickly make an arrest.
“Within minutes, our patrol team and special response team responded, identified the vehicle, located it, and then quickly arrested three suspects over the next 12 hours,” said Deputy Police Chief Frederick Shavies.
Police have not released the identity of the adult arrested in the case.
