A California mother of eight was fatally shot, apparently while confronting a group of people she believed were selling marijuana vape pens to her child, according to local news reports.
Maria Guadalupe Ramos Velasco, 33, of Los Angeles, was shot and killed earlier this month near the intersection of Hilton Street and Bancroft Avenue in Oakland around 2:20 p.m. on August 7, according to FOX 2 Oakland.
Earlier in the day, Ramos and his mother, Blanca Velasco, apparently saw a Toyota parked near Velasco’s home and believed the occupants were selling marijuana vaporizers to one of Ramos’ children. The couple planned to approach the vehicle and tell them to “stop coming” to the house, Velasco told KTVU.
Ramos and Velasco were in Velasco’s Toyota RAV4 at the time, and Ramos allegedly got out and confronted the suspects in their vehicle. She then sprayed pepper spray into the back of the suspect vehicle, KTVU reported, citing newly obtained video footage of the incident, a witness and a source close to the investigation.
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Maria Guadalupe Ramos Velasco, a 33-year-old mother of eight, was fatally shot on August 7 while confronting a group she said was selling vape pens to one of her children. (KTVU)
At that point, a 16-year-old suspect, whose identity has not been released due to his age, allegedly shot Ramos, killing her. When the teenage suspect pointed the gun at Velasco, she ran away but turned around to find her daughter lying on the ground, according to KTVU.
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Maria Guadalupe Ramos Velasco, 33, of Los Angeles, was shot near the intersection of Hilton Street and Bancroft Avenue in Oakland around 2:20 p.m. on August 7. (KTVU)
Prosecutors charged alleged driver Isaiah Gomez, 19, with aiding and abetting the crime.
“I started rubbing her chest and telling her, ‘Breathe, Lupita, breathe! We still need you. You have 8 children.’ And she tried,” Velasco told the outlet.
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Ramos leaves behind seven daughters aged 1 to 16, as well as a 7-year-old son. (KTVU)
Ramos had already struggled with her own drug addiction, according to her mother. She leaves behind seven daughters, ages 1 to 16, and a 7-year-old son.
“We have to change the way we live here,” Ramos’ aunt, Maria Del Carmen Beltran, told KTVU. “We don’t have to be killers, you know?”
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Ramos “brought immense joy, love and kindness into the lives of all who knew her,” a GoFundMe page says. (KTVU)
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“She brought immense joy, love and kindness into the lives of all who knew her,” Beltran wrote in the description of a GoFundMe page for Ramos. “As we navigate this profound loss, we come together to honor Guadalupe’s memory and give her the send-off she truly deserves.”
The GoFundMe campaign titled “Family María Guadalupe Ramos Velasco” states that donations “will go directly to helping [for] his children, and to help ease the financial burden on the Ramos family.”
