The investigation into a beating death in Schuylkill County continues. Late Tuesday afternoon the coroner ruled the death a homicide.
Witnesses claim a group of teenagers attacked Luis Ramirez,the father of three, and some said it was racially motivated.
Now that the coroner has ruled Ramirez's death a homicide, police have the green light to file charges in the beating death.
The family of Luis Ramierz released photographs taken at the hospital to remind those who are responsible what they did.
Witnesses said a group of white high school teens beat Ramirez, a Hispanic, on a street this weekend in Shenandoah. Witnesses said it was racially motivated. His widow is trying ease the news of the death to her young children.
"He had a pair of pants on the couch and she said,'Ah Daddy' and she just laid there all sad and eventually fell asleep and then when she saw the pictures of him in the hospital on the computer. She looked at it and said, 'Look Mommy, Daddy has boo-boos,'" Crystal Dillman said of her young daughter. Dillman is Ramirez's fiance.
Donation cans for the Ramirez family are beginning to show up all around Shenandoah. That act of kindness doesn't stop there.
"Thank God for the Annunciation Church in Shenandoah is going to pay to have his body shipped to Mexico. They're going to be paying for everything, for him to have a viewing in Shenandoah," Dillman added.
Some say the death has caused an emotional undercurrent. Eileen Burke witnessed the beating and called 911.
"To me the longer it goes it's escalating, it's escalating. You can feel the pressure. You can feel the pressure," Burke said.
There is a festival this weekend and some don't think the bad feelings will spill over.
"They just think it's going to be an all out brawl or riot this weekend. I don't think that will happen. I don't think the police will allow that to happen," said Len Paterson of Shenandoah.
Others, like Saundra Aguilar will keep her three teenage children in after dark. "Two of them are part Hispanic and white and I am really concerned about where the retaliation is going to come from the white or the Hispanics," she said.
Police promise plenty of patrols.
Investigators have to decide if they have a enough evidence to charge those responsible for the death of Luis Ramirez.
 The Ramirez family hopes this photo of Luis in the hospital will remind those responsible for putting him there about what they did. |
Now that the coroner has ruled Ramirez's death a homicide, police have the green light to file charges in the beating death.
The family of Luis Ramierz released photographs taken at the hospital to remind those who are responsible what they did.
Witnesses said a group of white high school teens beat Ramirez, a Hispanic, on a street this weekend in Shenandoah. Witnesses said it was racially motivated. His widow is trying ease the news of the death to her young children.
"He had a pair of pants on the couch and she said,'Ah Daddy' and she just laid there all sad and eventually fell asleep and then when she saw the pictures of him in the hospital on the computer. She looked at it and said, 'Look Mommy, Daddy has boo-boos,'" Crystal Dillman said of her young daughter. Dillman is Ramirez's fiance.
Donation cans for the Ramirez family are beginning to show up all around Shenandoah. That act of kindness doesn't stop there.
"Thank God for the Annunciation Church in Shenandoah is going to pay to have his body shipped to Mexico. They're going to be paying for everything, for him to have a viewing in Shenandoah," Dillman added.
Some say the death has caused an emotional undercurrent. Eileen Burke witnessed the beating and called 911.
"To me the longer it goes it's escalating, it's escalating. You can feel the pressure. You can feel the pressure," Burke said.
There is a festival this weekend and some don't think the bad feelings will spill over.
"They just think it's going to be an all out brawl or riot this weekend. I don't think that will happen. I don't think the police will allow that to happen," said Len Paterson of Shenandoah.
Others, like Saundra Aguilar will keep her three teenage children in after dark. "Two of them are part Hispanic and white and I am really concerned about where the retaliation is going to come from the white or the Hispanics," she said.
Police promise plenty of patrols.
Investigators have to decide if they have a enough evidence to charge those responsible for the death of Luis Ramirez.
